John Huppenthal was born on March 3,1954 and is an American politician who served as Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2011 to 2015.
16 Facts About John Huppenthal
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John Huppenthal was a Senior Planning Analyst for Salt River Project.
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John Huppenthal was born in Michigan City, Indiana and moved with his family to Arizona during childhood.
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John Huppenthal graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson.
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John Huppenthal earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Northern Arizona University.
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John Huppenthal then obtained a Master of Business Administration from Arizona State University.
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John Huppenthal was elected to the Chandler City Council in 1984, where he served two four-year terms.
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In 2000, John Huppenthal was elected State Representative, serving from 2000 to 2004.
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In 2004, John Huppenthal announced he would seek to reelection to the State Senate.
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In 2005, an effort to recall John Huppenthal was launched but failed to obtain enough signatures to make it to the ballot.
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John Huppenthal was elected Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction in the 2010 state election.
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John Huppenthal was defeated in his race for reelection in the Republican Party primary in 2014 by Diane Douglas, who subsequently won the general election, and succeeded him in office in January 2015.
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On his last day in office, John Huppenthal issued a letter warning the Tucson Unified School District that they were illegally promoting ethnic solidarity and the overthrow of the US government by teaching Mexican history and hip hop.
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John Huppenthal stated that "these are critically important programs", and decried the budget cuts to them as being "simply horrendous".
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John Huppenthal did not address the question, but, when pressed, walked out of the interview.
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In June 2014, an Arizona political blogger alleged that John Huppenthal was the person behind pseudonyms used for several years to post anonymous comments on his blog, and other political websites.