23 Facts About Rob Bishop

Robert William Bishop was born on July 13,1951 and is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 2003 to 2021.

Rob Bishop was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Utah as Thomas Wright's running mate in the 2020 election.

Rob Bishop was born in Kaysville, Utah, and graduated from Davis High School.

Rob Bishop served as a Mormon missionary in Germany from 1970 until 1972.

Rob Bishop received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974.

Rob Bishop taught civics classes at Brigham City's Box Elder High School from 1974 to 1980; he next taught German in Ogden, Utah at Ben Lomond High School; then he returned to teaching government and history classes at Box Elder High School until his retirement from teaching in 2002.

Rob Bishop was a member of the Utah House of Representatives from 1978 to 1994.

Rob Bishop was House Majority Leader and later served as Speaker of the House from 1992 until 1994.

Rob Bishop has worked as a legislative lobbyist in Washington.

In 2002, Rob Bishop returned to politics when he ran for the Republican nomination in the 1st District.

Rob Bishop defeated Garn in that primary with 59.8 percent of the vote, all but assuring him of being the next congressman from this heavily Republican district.

Rob Bishop has won re-election in 2004,2006,2008,2010, and 2012 with even larger margins.

In 2010 Rob Bishop introduced to the House an amendment to the United States Constitution, known as the "repeal amendment," which would allow a majority vote of the states to overturn any act of the United States Congress.

Rob Bishop is among those most critical of the Antiquities Act.

Rob Bishop opposed the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument and supports repealing or shrinking the designation.

In February 2011, Rob Bishop introduced a budget amendment that would have defunded the National Landscape Conservation System, which manages 27 million acres of Bureau of Land Management land, including the National Monument, National Conservation Area, National Wilderness Preservation, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Scenic Trail, National Historic Trail systems and other systems.

Rob Bishop argued that "the American people deserve the opportunity to participate in land-use decisions regardless of whether they are made in Congress or by the President".

In March 2019, Rob Bishop said that "the ideas behind the Green New Deal are tantamount to genocide".

Rob Bishop was chairman of the Utah Republican Party when the decision was made to close primaries to nonparty members in the late 1990s.

Rob Bishop announced in July 2019 that he would not seek reelection to the House in 2020.

Rob Bishop mentioned the same year that he was considering running for governor, but considered himself a "horrible" candidate.

Rob Bishop joined Thomas Wright's ticket as a candidate for lieutenant governor in the 2020 Utah gubernatorial election but later lost the primary.

Rob Bishop is married to Jeralynn Hansen, a former Miss Peach Queen for Brigham City, Utah.