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Robert Julian Bentley (born February 3, 1943) is an American politician, medical doctor, and the 53rd and current Governor of Alabama. He assumed the governorship on January 17, 2011, having defeated Democrat Ron Sparks, the outgoing Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture, in the 2010 Alabama gubernatorial election. Bentley received just over 58% of the statewide vote and won by a margin of over 230,000 votes.
Mike Dale Beebe (born December 28, 1946) is the 45th and current Governor of Arkansas, since January 9, 2007. He was elected to a second term in 2010. Beebe is a member of the Democratic Party.
Beebe was born in Amagon, a small town in Jackson County, Arkansas. He was raised by his mother, a waitress, and never met his father. As a child, he moved often with his family. They lived in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Houston and Alamogordo, New Mexico. They returned to Arkansas, and he graduated from Newport High School in 1964.
Beebe received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Arkansas State University in 1968, where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas in 1972. Beebe served in the U.S. Army Reserve. He practiced law in Searcy in White County for ten years after his graduation from law school.
In 1982, he was elected to the Arkansas State Senate, where he would serve for 20 years. In 2002, he was elected Arkansas Attorney General, a position he held until getting elected Governor of Arkansas.
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Bio: Bob Riley (born October 3, 1944) in Ashland, Alabama. Riley is currently serving his second consecutive term as the governor of Alabama. He is the 52nd governor of Alabama and was first elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. As a member of the Republican Party, Riley has focused his efforts on making the state government more accountable to Alabama tax payers, economic development and education reform. Riley also signed the first income tax cut in Alabama in the past 70 years, into law in.
Riley has spurred job development in Alabama although he has some critics. The unemployment rate has climbed from 5.3% in January, 2003 to 3.3% in March of 2006. This was the lowest for Alabama since 1976. Currently the unemployment rate has climbed to record highs. In April the unemployment rate climbed to 9.0%, the state’s highest unemployment rate in 25 years.
Before serving as Alabama’s state governor, Riley served in the states third congressional district as a representative in congress. He served in this position from 1997 to 2003. Riley is a strong believer in term limits and kept his promise to only serve three terms. He was then elected as the next governor of Alabama. The Washington Times is speculating that Riley will enter the 2012 Presidential election.
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Sean R. Parnell (born November 19, 1962) in Hanford, California. Parnell is currently serving his first term as the governor of Alaska. Parnell is the 10th governor of Alaska. He was sworn into office on July 26, 2009 following Sarah Palin’s resignation from office. As a member of the Republican Party, Parnell served in the Alaskan House of Representatives in 1992 followed by a term in the Alaska State Senate in 1996. While serving on the Alaska State Senate, Parnell was a member of the Energy Council and was a member and co-chair of the finance committee. Since 1987 Parnell has been an attorney, licensed in both Alaska and Washington D.C. In 2007 Parnell ran for the lieutenant governor. In the primaries Parnell ran separate from Sarah Palin. In the election both Palin and Parnell ran together to achieve a victory.
Governor Parnell is focused on two things. He has set out to create economic opportunities and assure a safe, healthy place to raise a family. Parnell is currently running for a full term as the Governor of Alaska.
Piyush “Bobby” Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana. On October 20, 2007, Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana, winning a four-way race with 54.2% of the vote. At age 36, Jindal became the youngest current governor in the United States.
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Janice Kay “Jan” Brewer (born September 26, 1944) is the 22nd and current Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and is a Republican. She automatically became governor replacing former governor Janet Napolitano. Jan Brewer became governor at a time of extreme economic upheaval for the state, and issues such as a dwindling tax base, record foreclosures, public education funding, illegal immigration and healthcare have all been key issues during her time in office. [Read more...]
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is the 55th and current Governor of New York. He is the first governor of New York of African American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state. When Spitzer resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal, Paterson was sworn in as governor of New York on March 17, 2008. Paterson initially intended to run for a full term in the 2010 gubernatorial election, but announced on February 26, 2010, that he would not be a candidate in the Democratic primary.
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Currently: Bauer is in the hot seat for yet another fumble, at a town hall meeting on Thursday he alluded to starving the poor by saying… “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that.”
Since taking office in 2006, McDonnell has seen 83 of his 94 legislative proposals become law, most with overwhelming bipartisan support. He has been commended for his work to strengthen Virginia’s mental health laws, crack down on animal fighting, establish a “Senior Alert” to assist in locating missing seniors with mental deficiencies, create a state of the art Sex Offender Registry, and provide new tools for law enforcement involved in online investigations of identity theft, sexual predators, and other 21st Century criminals. Read the rest of his bio from: http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/index.php/site/meet_bob/
Currently: Christie wins New Jersey Governor election over incumbent Jon Corzine (D) in a close and heated race. Read more from CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/03/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5517051.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Bio: Chris Christie has a deep affection and strong commitment to New Jersey. Born in Newark and raised in Livingston, Chris has lived in New Jersey his entire life. Chris and his wife of 22 years, Mary Pat, now reside in Mendham, where they are raising their four children, Andrew, Sarah, Patrick and Bridget. After graduating from the University of Delaware in 1984, Chris graduated from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1987. Chris joined a Cranford law firm and soon was named a partner. He was elected a Freeholder in Morris County, and served as Director of the Board in 1997. [Read more...]
Currently: “On Wednesday, word came that 12 of 27 state senators and six South Carolina newspapers are calling upon the governor to resign following his mysterious disappearance and revelations of adultery. Even the Greenville News revoked its statement supporting the governor after the interview…” [Read more...]
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