1. Brian Nelson Calley was born on March 25,1977 and is an American politician who served as the 63rd lieutenant governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
12 Facts About Brian Calley
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Brian Calley currently serves as president of the Michigan Small Business Association, and as a member of the board of trustees of Oakland University.
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Brian Calley campaigned to require Michigan health insurance plans to include coverage for autism therapies, signing into law a package providing for such reforms as acting governor.
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Brian Calley was born in Dearborn, the third of six children.
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Two years later, the family moved back to Michigan where Brian Calley graduated from Ionia High School in 1994.
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Brian Calley was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2006 and re-elected in 2008.
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In 2010, despite securing the Republican nomination for state Senate days earlier, Brian Calley was announced as gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder's running mate.
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Brian Calley assumed office as the nation's youngest lieutenant governor and Michigan's youngest lieutenant governor since John Swainson in 1959.
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In May 2017, Brian Calley announced a campaign to make the legislature part-time.
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Brian Calley unsuccessfully ran to succeed Snyder in the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election.
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Brian Calley stated he first suspected his daughter's condition during a committee hearing as parents of autistic children shared their similar experiences.
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Brian Calley signed the bills into law as acting governor while Rick Snyder was on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan.