1. Jonathan David Weinzapfel was born on November 16,1965 and is an American politician, attorney, businessman, and Democratic nominee for Indiana Attorney General in the 2020 election.
19 Facts About Jonathan Weinzapfel
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Jonathan Weinzapfel was elected in November 2003 and again in 2007.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel did not run for a third term in office, and was succeeded by Lloyd Winnecke.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel attended Reitz Memorial High School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Indiana University.
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In 1996, Jonathan Weinzapfel ran for the United States House of Representatives in the 8th District of Indiana.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel was defeated in a close race by one-term incumbent John Hostettler after narrowly defeating State Representative Rick McConnell of Princeton, Indiana.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel went on to serve five years in the Indiana House of Representatives for District 76.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel served on the Financial Institutions, the Judiciary, and the Public Health committees.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel's accomplishments include helping to found the Southwestern Indiana Regional Development Commission.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel served as the first president of the group.
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In office, Jonathan Weinzapfel focused on creating jobs and revitalizing downtown, primarily through the successful construction of the Ford Center, a multi-use indoor arena in with a maximum seating capacity of 11,000.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel started the Evansville Education Roundtable to provide a community-wide dialogue on improving education and has built a collaborative style of decision-making through his "Traveling City Hall" program.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as attorney in 2012 and resigned in 2014.
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In 2014, Jonathan Weinzapfel was selected as chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College Southwest as part of the college's organizational restructure.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel served in that position through November 2019, when he left to join the Evansville law firm, Jones Wallace LLC.
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On December 10,2019, Jonathan Weinzapfel announced his intention to run for Indiana Attorney General in the 2020 election against incumbent Republican Curtis Hill.
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On June 13,2020, during the virtual state convention, delegates formally nominated Jonathan Weinzapfel to be the Democratic nominee for attorney general, defeating his only primary opponent, state senator Karen Tallian.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel went on to lose the general election to former Congressman Todd Rokita by a wide margin, though he received a greater percentage of the vote than either Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden or Democratic gubernatorial candidate Woody Myers.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel is married to Patricia Weinzapfel and they have three children.