Samuel Mark Gordon was born on March 14,1957 and is an American politician serving as the 33rd governor of Wyoming since January 7,2019.
21 Facts About Mark Gordon
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Mark Gordon's father grew up on Drumlin Farm, in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Mark Gordon's parents married on October 27,1945, at the First Unitarian Church of Kennebunk, Maine, before settling at their ranch in Kaycee, Wyoming, in 1947.
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Mark Gordon is a nephew of the socialite Jean Gordon.
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Mark Gordon was raised on his family's ranch in Johnson County, Wyoming.
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Mark Gordon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Middlebury College in 1979.
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In 2008, Mark Gordon was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican primary for the United States House of Representatives for Wyoming's at-large congressional district seat held by Barbara Cubin, who was retiring.
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Mark Gordon's main opponent was Cynthia Lummis, a former state treasurer and the wife of a Democratic former state representative, Alvin Wiederspahn.
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Mark Gordon was sworn in as treasurer on November 1,2012, by Wyoming Supreme Court Justice William Hill, after being selected by Governor Matt Mead.
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Mark Gordon was elected to a full term as treasurer in 2014.
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Mark Gordon declined to run for Cynthia Lummis's seat in the US House of Representatives in 2016, the one he ran for in 2008, and instead ran for governor of Wyoming in 2018.
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Mark Gordon was reelected to a second term against Democratic nominee Theresa Livingston in the general election.
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Amid a November 2020 spike in coronavirus cases, Mark Gordon imposed some restrictions on indoor and outdoor public gatherings.
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Mark Gordon did not implement curfews, temporarily close any businesses or initially impose a statewide mask mandate.
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In November 2020, Mark Gordon proposed $500 million in cuts to the Wyoming budget to account for declining revenue from the fossil fuel industry, which is crucial to Wyoming's economy.
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The budget Mark Gordon signed decreases the amount cut to the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Department of Health.
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In 2021, a New York Times investigation revealed that Mark Gordon had been targeted by hard-right conservatives, such as Susan Gore, the heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune.
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Mark Gordon met his first wife, the former Sarah Hildreth Gilmore, at Middlebury College.
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In 1998 Mark Gordon met his current wife, the former Jennie Muir Young, and they married in 2000.
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On November 25,2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mark Gordon tested positive for the virus on the same day his office was to be reopened after an employee of his had tested positive earlier.
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Mark Gordon's office remained closed temporarily for deep-cleaning after his diagnosis.