Tim Walz

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Tim Walz (2013)

Timothy James "Tim" Walz (born April 6, 1964 in West Point , Cuming County , Nebraska ) is an American politician of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party . From 2007 to 2019 he belonged to the US House of Representatives as a democratic MP for the first congressional district of the State of Minnesota to. Since January 7, 2019, he has succeeded Mark Dayton as governor of Minnesota.

Family, education and work

At the age of 17, Walz became a member of the National Guard , in which he served for a total of 24 years. After completing his teacher training at Chadron State College in 1989, Harvard University offered him the opportunity to teach as part of an educational program in the People's Republic of China . He soon faced sanctions from the Chinese government and returned to the United States in 1990. Most recently he worked as a high school teacher in Mankato .

The Lutheran Walz has two children with his wife Gwen. You live in Mankato.

Political career

Congressman

In the 2006 election , Walz prevailed in the 1st congressional electoral district of Minnesota, which includes the rural south of the state, with 53 percent of the vote against the Republican electorate Gil Gutknecht . Walz took up his seat in the United States House of Representatives on January 3, 2007 and has been re-elected since then. He announced in March 2017 that he would not stand for re- election in the 2018 election, but instead run for the Democrats in the November 2018 gubernatorial election in Minnesota. Walz's congressional electoral district, which according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index has a structural advantage for Republicans of R + 4 and which Donald Trump won by 15 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election , was therefore seen as one of the few opportunities for attack by the Republicans in the 2018 election at the mid-term election in Donald Trump's presidency . In fact, Republican Jim Hagedorn was elected to succeed him in what was one of two formerly Democratic constituencies that went to Republicans in the 2018 election.

governor

Walz at a public appearance in March 2018

Walz prevailed in the Democratic primary election for Minnesota governor on August 21, 2018 with 41% against four other candidates and ran against Republican Jeff Johnson , who was running for governor in 2014 and the former incumbent of the Republicans , in the main election in November Tim Pawlenty had beaten in the Republican primary. He chose MP Peggy Flanagan as his running mate as a candidate for the office of lieutenant governor . Polls and political observers saw a good chance of success for him. In the election on November 6, 2018, as expected, he won through with 53.8% of the vote, while only 42.4% of the voters were in favor of Johnson. His lead was the largest in a gubernatorial election since 1994 and the Democrats' highest victory since 1986.

Walz was sworn in as governor on January 7, 2019.

After protests, some of which were violent, over the death of an African American in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis, Walz mobilized the National Guard at the end of May 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Tim Walz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Walz's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  2. ↑ Simone Pathé: Minnesota's Tim Walz Running for Governor. In: Roll Call , March 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Ella Nilsen: Live results for Minnesota primary elections. In: Vox.com , August 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Minnesota Governor - Johnson vs. Walz. In: RealClearPolitics.
personal data
SURNAME Walz, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walz, Timothy James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH West Point , Nebraska