James Stuart Gilmore III was born on October 6,1949 and is an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and former attorney who served as the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002.
63 Facts About Jim Gilmore
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Jim Gilmore was later elected to public office as a county prosecutor and the Attorney General of Virginia before being elected Governor of Virginia in 1997.
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In November 2018, Jim Gilmore was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the US Representative to United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a position which carries the rank of ambassador.
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Jim Gilmore's nomination was confirmed by a voice vote of the US Senate on May 23,2019.
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Jim Gilmore was sworn in on June 25,2019 and presented his credentials to OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger on July 2,2019.
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Jim Gilmore was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Margaret Evelyn, a church secretary, and James Stuart Jim Gilmore Jr.
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Jim Gilmore graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1971.
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In 1971, Jim Gilmore volunteered to serve in the United States Army after attending college, receiving training and preparation for service in the Military Intelligence Corps at the newly created United States Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
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Jim Gilmore received rigorous foreign language education at the United States Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.
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Jim Gilmore then worked for three years in the early 1970s, in the 650th Military Intelligence Group.
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Jim Gilmore received his JD degree from University of Virginia Law School in 1977, A decade later, he was elected Commonwealth's Attorney in Henrico County and was re-elected in 1991.
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In 1997, Jim Gilmore faced then-Lieutenant Governor Don Beyer and Reform Party candidate Sue Harris Debauche in a bid to succeed George Allen as governor.
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Jim Gilmore campaigned heavily on the twin promises of hiring 4,000 new teachers in public schools and phasing out Virginia's personal property tax on automobiles.
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Jim Gilmore signed an executive order, which was passed by the General Assembly, reducing state spending by all agencies, except for education, to keep the state's budget balanced during the economic downturn.
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Jim Gilmore was focused on creating jobs by leading several trade missions to: South America in 1999 ; Asia in 2000 ; Europe again in 2001.
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Mr Jim Gilmore, since leaving office, has traveled to Pakistan, Australia, and Peru.
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Jim Gilmore traveled to Israel when he was Attorney General of Virginia in the early 1990s.
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The Jim Gilmore Administration implemented new Standards of Learning reforms in Virginia's public schools.
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Jim Gilmore commissioned a Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education that studied accountability and governance of public colleges and universities.
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Jim Gilmore's Commission authored the first blueprint for decentralized regulatory and administrative authority to some universities in return for agreements to meet agreed upon performance objectives.
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Jim Gilmore proposed and signed into law Virginia's first stand-alone Martin Luther King Holiday.
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Jim Gilmore proposed and funded a new African-American History Trail in Virginia and called upon the State Board of Education to include a more diverse range of historical figures in Virginia's Social Studies curriculum.
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Test scores during Jim Gilmore's term showed a narrowing of the "achievement gap" between minority and white students.
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Jim Gilmore significantly increased funding for two of Virginia's historically black universities, Norfolk State University and Virginia State University.
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Jim Gilmore created the nation's first state Secretary of Technology, a position first held by Donald Upson.
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Jim Gilmore granted executive clemency to one death row inmate on the basis of mental illness.
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Jim Gilmore ordered DNA tests in the case of Derek Rocco Barnabei; the tests confirmed Barnabei's guilt and he was executed.
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Jim Gilmore signed into law a bill that banned human cloning.
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In 1998, Jim Gilmore went to court to try to prevent the removal of a feeding tube of a car crash victim, the former Kentucky news anchor Hugh Finn, who had suffered from a persistent vegetative state for several years.
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Jim Gilmore lost his petition that removal of a feeding tube was not removal of artificial life support because it amounted to starvation of an infirm person who could not feed himself and Finn was allowed to die, upholding his wishes as he had expressed them to his family while he was working on developing a living will when still in good health that he wished not to be kept alive in such a state.
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Jim Gilmore was succeeded by Democrat Mark Warner, who took office in early 2002.
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On December 19,2006, Jim Gilmore announced he would form an exploratory committee to "fill the conservative void" in the race.
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Jim Gilmore said he represented "the Republican wing of the Republican Party" in the race for the 2008 Presidential nomination; the comment mirrored the slogan used by Howard Dean when seeking the Democratic nomination in the 2004 election, who lifted the slogan from Senator Paul Wellstone.
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Jim Gilmore hosted only one fundraiser in the first quarter due to a late exploratory announcement.
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On July 14,2007, Jim Gilmore announced that he was ending his campaign.
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Jim Gilmore said that it would be "impractical" to run, citing the difficulty of raising enough money to be competitive in early-voting states Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Jim Gilmore lobbied strongly for choosing the party's nominee at a statewide convention rather than a primary, claiming that a convention would cost only $1 million versus the $4 million required to run a primary campaign.
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Jim Gilmore formally announced his candidacy via a YouTube video on November 19,2007.
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Jim Gilmore said that he was running to give Virginia "a strong and steady hand" in the Senate.
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Jim Gilmore faced a challenge from his right in State Delegate Bob Marshall of Prince William County.
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However, at the convention Jim Gilmore won the nomination by a margin of only 65 votes out of 3,000 cast.
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On July 7,2015, Jim Gilmore told the Associated Press that he planned to announce his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in the first week of August 2015.
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Jim Gilmore announced his candidacy via an internet video clip the next day.
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Jim Gilmore was consistently the lowest-polling candidate in the 2016 GOP field.
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Jim Gilmore failed to qualify for all but two of the "undercard" lower-tier debates.
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Jim Gilmore was the only commonly polled candidate to be left out of more than one undercard debate.
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Jim Gilmore insisted that he was "not going anywhere" and would continue to run.
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On January 26,2016, after being denied participation in five consecutive debates, Jim Gilmore was invited back for the "undercard" debate on January 28, his first debate since August.
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Jim Gilmore then received 133 votes in the New Hampshire primary.
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Jim Gilmore indicated he intended to continue his campaign into South Carolina.
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Jim Gilmore served on the board of Windmill International, a government contractor previously accused of trying to secure fraudulent contracts in Iraq.
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Jim Gilmore was never accused of wrongdoing regarding fraud committed in Windmill International's name.
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From 1999 to 2003, Jim Gilmore chaired the Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, nicknamed the Jim Gilmore Commission.
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From January 2001 to January 2002, Jim Gilmore was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Jim Gilmore has re-branded the Free Congress Foundation into the American Opportunity Foundation.
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Jim Gilmore is President of USA Secure, a non-profit homeland security think tank based in Washington, DC.
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In 2021, Jim Gilmore was interviewed, by contributors Christopher Lim and Kendall O'Donnell from the UK-based think-tank The Bruges Group on his time as United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the European Union, US - China relations, and the Biden Administration's foreign policy.
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Jim Gilmore criticised the G7's B3W programme, saying there was "zero discussion of [B3W] in the United States", and described President Biden's relationship with European allies as "a lot of public messaging, to be polite, and a lot of talk, to be not so polite".
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Jim Gilmore was praised for "asking hard-hitting, pertinent questions that need to be asked of the Biden Administration", and "reaffirming [his] place as one of the GOP's premier foreign policy minds".
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Jim Gilmore was considered for the position of United States Ambassador to Germany by the Trump Administration, but ultimately not chosen.
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In November 2018, Jim Gilmore was nominated as the next US Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with the rank of ambassador.
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Jim Gilmore was confirmed by the US Senate on May 23,2019.
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Jim Gilmore took his oath of office on June 25,2019 and presented his credentials to OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger on July 2,2019.