John George Pappageorge was born on July 19,1931 and is a former member of the Michigan State Senate in the United States.
17 Facts About John Pappageorge
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John Pappageorge was born to a Greek family on the east side of Detroit, Michigan.
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John Pappageorge served 30 years of active duty in the Infantry, including two combat tours in Vietnam.
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John Pappageorge conducted shuttle diplomacy between Greece and Turkey that returned Greek forces to NATO's integrated military structure.
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John Pappageorge retired as a colonel in 1984, settling in Troy, Michigan in Oakland County.
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From 1989 to 1992, John Pappageorge served as an Oakland county commissioner.
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John Pappageorge was the Republican candidate for Congress in Michigan's 12th congressional district in 1992,1994, and 1996.
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John Pappageorge was married for thirty-five years to his first wife, Helen.
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John Pappageorge married Cristina Burnard in 1997.
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John Pappageorge's son George is an Army reserve Lieutenant Colonel who has served in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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John Pappageorge benefitted from Newt Gingrich's Contract with America and the 1994 Republican Revolution.
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John Pappageorge served in the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1999 to 2004, when he retired due to term limits.
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John Pappageorge spent four years on the House Appropriations Committee, and served his final two years as Chair of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and as a member of the Employment Relations, Training and Safety Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Senior Health, Security, and Retirement Committee, and the Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee.
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John Pappageorge defeated Troy City Councilmember Matt Pryor in the Republican Primary.
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John Pappageorge was again re-elected again to his final term under term-limits in 2002 in the newly created 41st District, a district which composed roughly the same area.
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John Pappageorge was persuaded by the Michigan Republican Party to run for the 13th District State Senate seat after Congressman Sander Levin's son, Andy Levin announced he was going to enter the race.
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The Michigan Republican Party, on behalf of John Pappageorge's campaign, distributed flyers alleging that Levin had stances on issues, including same-sex marriage, illegal immigration and gun control, that were too liberal for the district.