Who ran for the Michigan gubernatorial election in 2006 and was a CEO?
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Michigan gubernatorial election, 2006 The Michigan gubernatorial election of 2006 was one of the 36 U.S. gubernatorial elections held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm was re-elected over Republican businessman Dick DeVos and three minor party candidates. Granholm was re-elected with 56% of the vote.
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Dick DeVos Richard Marvin "Dick" DeVos Jr. (born October 21, 1955) is an American entrepreneur-businessman and author from Michigan. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he served as CEO of the consumer goods distribution company from 1993 to 2002. In 2006, DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan, but lost to the then Democratic incumbent Jennifer Granholm. In 2012, "Forbes" magazine listed his father as the 67th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of approximately $5.1 billion.
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Rosalynn Bliss Rosalynn Bliss (born August 3, 1975) is an American politician, social worker, and mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The first woman to be elected Mayor of Michigan's second-largest city, Bliss took office on January 1, 2016. Bliss has served on the Grand Rapids City Commission since 2006.
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Michael Goschka Michael Goschka (born October 21, 1953) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1993 through 1998. He was then elected to the Michigan State Senate and served as Senator from 1999 through 2007.
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2006 Central Michigan Chippewas football team The 2006 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University during the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Central Michigan competed as a member of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The Chippewas were led by third-year head coach Brian Kelly.
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Thomas Murphy (chairman) Thomas Aquinas Murphy (December 10, 1915 – January 18, 2006) was former CEO of General Motors during the 1970s.
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Marco McMillian Marco McMillian (April 23, 1979 – February 26, 2013) was a businessman and candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi in 2013. He was "the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi". McMillian was CEO of MWM & Associates, a firm that provided consulting to non-profit organizations.
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Kenneth Horn Kenneth B. 'Ken' Horn is a member of the Michigan Senate for the 32nd District and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives for the 94th District encompassing part of Saginaw County) from 2007 through 2012. Horn was first elected to the House in 2006, and re-elected in 2008 and 2010. In 2014, Horn was elected to the Michigan Senate from the 32nd District, which includes Saginaw County and the westernmost portion of Genesee County. Before his career in the Michigan legislature, he served as a Saginaw County commissioner for 14 years, and operated a restaurant in Frankenmuth.
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Tom Henry Thomas Charles "Tom" Henry (born November 8, 1951) is an American businessman and politician who is the current and 35th Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana. A member of the Democratic Party, Henry served five terms on Fort Wayne City Council from 1984 to 2004, representing the 3rd District. Henry is the President and CEO of the Gallant Group, an insurance agency specializing in healthcare consulting.
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Pete Snyder Pete Snyder (born August 5, 1972) is an American entrepreneur and marketing executive who is best known as the founder and former chief executive officer of New Media Strategies (NMS), a social media marketing agency that he started in 1999. Snyder stepped down as CEO of NMS in 2011 and founded the angel investment firm Disruptor Capital in 2012. Snyder was the chairman of the 2012 Virginia Victory Campaign and ran for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in the 2013 United States elections where he failed to win the Republican nomination. Snyder declined to run for the Republican nomination for governor in 2017, instead endorsing Ed Gillespie.
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Mike Duggan Michael Edward Duggan (born July 15, 1958) is an American politician and businessman. He was elected the 75th mayor of Detroit, Michigan in 2013, receiving national attention in part for being the first white mayor of the majority-black city since the early 1970s, when Detroit's population still had a white majority.
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Pete Lund Pete Lund is a politician, small business owner, and part-time professor from the U.S. state of Michigan. In 2008, he was elected as a Republican to the Michigan State House of Representatives, taking office in 2009. He represents the 36th District, which is located in Macomb County and consists of the townships, or parts of the townships, of Bruce Township, Shelby Township, and Washington Township.
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M. Michele Burns Martha Michele Burns (born February 1958 in Georgia) is an American businesswoman. She was chairman and CEO of Mercer between 2006 and 2011 and was director on the boards of a number of major American companies, including Cisco Systems, Wal-Mart, and Goldman Sachs.
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Travis Kalanick Travis Cordell Kalanick ( ; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman.
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Jeffery Hildebrand Jeffery Hildebrand (born 1959) is an American businessman, who is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Hilcorp Energy Company.
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Scott Romney George Scott Romney (born June 7, 1941) is an American Republican politician and lawyer in the state of Michigan. He formerly sat on the Michigan State University Board of Trustees. A member of the Pratt-Romney family—a well-known political family in Michigan—he is the son of former Michigan Governor George W. Romney and brother of the former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. He goes by the name of "Scott" in order to distinguish himself from his father.
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James Kamsickas James K. Kamsickas (born 1966/67) is an American businessman, the CEO and president of Dana Incorporated since August 2015.
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Michigan gubernatorial election, 1970 The 1970 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Republican William Milliken won the election, defeating Democrat Sander Levin.
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Dan Scripps Dan Scripps is an American politician. He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives for the state's 101st district until he lost to Republican Ray Franz in November 2010. The district includes Leelanau, Benzie, Manistee and Mason counties, the northwest coast of Michigan's lower peninsula. He attended Alma College during his undergrad years. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2005. Beginning as a summer intern in 2004, he was employed by Latham & Watkins Law Firm in Washington D. C. until running for office in 2006. He returned to Latham & Watkins in 2011 until moving back to Michigan in late 2012, where he is President of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council.
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United States Senate election in Michigan, 2006 The 2006 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow won re-election to a second term.
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Tom Meyer Tom Meyer was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001-2006 representing Tuscola and Huron counties.
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Glenn S. Anderson Glenn S. Anderson (born February 8, 1954) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was a Democratic member of the Michigan Senate from 2007 to 2015 and the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007. In the 2012 election, Anderson challenged U.S. House of Representatives member John Conyers in a primary election, after Conyers lost part of his district to redistricting after the 2010 U.S. Census.