1. William Troy Bolling was born on June 15,1957 and is an American businessman, politician and educator who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
29 Facts About Bill Bolling
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Bill Bolling was the first lieutenant governor in the Commonwealth of Virginia to serve two consecutive terms since Don Beyer.
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Bill Bolling was succeeded by Democrat Ralph Northam after the 2013 general election.
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Bill Bolling was born on June 15,1957, in Sistersville, West Virginia.
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Bill Bolling was raised in the coal fields of southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia.
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Bill Bolling's father was a surface coal miner, and his mother was a homemaker.
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Bill Bolling moved to Mechanicsville, Virginia, in 1981 when he accepted a job with a Virginia insurance company.
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Bill Bolling first ran for elected office in 1991 for a position on the Hanover County Board of Supervisors.
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Bill Bolling won that office and served as a member of the Board until 1995.
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In 1995, Bolling was elected to the Senate of Virginia in a highly contested race against twenty year Democratic incumbent Elmo G Cross, Jr.
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Bill Bolling defeated Cross by 574 votes out of 50,000 cast.
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In 2005, Bill Bolling ran for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
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Bill Bolling won even though the Republican nominee for governor Jerry Kilgore lost the gubernatorial election.
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Bill Bolling was inaugurated as lieutenant governor on January 14,2006, in Williamsburg, Virginia, along with the other Executive Branch officers, including Democratic Governor Tim Kaine and Attorney General Bob McDonnell.
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Also as lieutenant governor, Bill Bolling put forth a statewide initiative, "100 Ideas for the Future of Virginia".
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Bill Bolling was one of newly elected Governor McDonnell's first cabinet members, and was appointed as Chief Jobs Creation Officer; overseeing the state's economic development programs.
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In June 2010, Bill Bolling announced $800,000 from the Virginia government to James Madison University to further research in wind energy, including "turbine testing, research and curriculum".
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The deal was widely known and as such, Bill Bolling was effectively running for governor since 2009, and in April 2010, Bill Bolling filed the necessary paperwork to run in 2013.
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In 2012, Bill Bolling was the Virginia state Chairman of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, a position he hoped to use to curry favor from a potential Romney administration and increase his own name recognition among state Republicans.
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On November 28,2012, Bill Bolling announced that he was suspending his campaign.
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Bill Bolling rejected the possibility of a write-in effort, citing an inability to raise enough money to run a successful campaign.
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However, Bill Bolling continued to comment on the race and the policy proposals of both the Democratic nominee, Terry McAuliffe, and the Republican nominee, Ken Cuccinelli.
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Professionally, Bill Bolling spent his entire career in the insurance business.
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Bill Bolling served as a Vice President with Riggs, Counselman, Michaels and Downes, one of the nation's independent insurance agencies, but took a leave of absence from the firm in 2018 to pursue a career in teaching.
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In October 2018 Bill Bolling accepted an appointment as a Senior Fellow at James Madison University, where he did extensive guest lecturing in political science and served as an advisor to the president of the university.
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Bill Bolling finished his fellowship at JMU in June 2019 and returned to his home in Richmond.
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Currently, Bill Bolling teaches political science at George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond.
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Matthew Bill Bolling received a degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 2006.
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Kevin Bill Bolling graduated with a degree in Business from James Madison University in 2010.