1. John Mathias Engler was born on October 12,1948 and is an American politician, lawyer, businessman, and lobbyist who served as the 46th governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003.
19 Facts About John Engler
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John Engler was elected Senate majority leader in 1984 and served there until being elected governor in 1990.
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John Engler was reelected in 1994 and 1998, and is the last Michigan governor to serve more than two terms.
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John Engler served on the board of trustees of the Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Foundation, which funds many Kirk Center programs.
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John Engler attended Michigan State University, graduating with a degree in agricultural economics in 1971, and Thomas M Cooley Law School, graduating with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1981.
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John Engler was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives as a state representative in 1970 at the age of 22.
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John Engler later became the first Republican youth vice-chair for the Michigan Republican Party, defeating future US Senator Spencer Abraham.
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John Engler was Engler's running mate in the 1998 election and served from 1999 to 2003.
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John Engler's administration was characterized by privatization of state services, income tax reduction, a sales tax increase, educational reform, welfare reform, and major reorganization of executive branch departments.
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John Engler bested Wolpe 61 to 39 percent, and the state Republican Party made significant gains.
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John Engler won a landslide victory over lawyer Geoffrey Fieger.
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John Engler left that position in June 2004 to be elected president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.
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In January 2011, John Engler was named president of the Business Roundtable.
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In 2017, John Engler was appointed to a four-year term on the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress project.
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John Engler resigned on January 16,2019 after the Board of Trustees indicated its intent to ask him to resign following a series of embarrassing incidents regarding Nassar's victims and his responses to issues in the aftermath.
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John Engler initially indicated he planned to resign on January 23,2019 but the Board required him to resign the morning after he submitted his resignation letter.
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In 1975, John Engler married Colleen House, who served in the Michigan House of Representatives before running for lieutenant governor of Michigan in 1986.
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John Engler married Michelle DeMunbrun, a Texas attorney, on December 8,1990.
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Michelle Engler was named to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation board in 2001 by President George W Bush, and re-appointed in 2002.