34 Facts About Senator Jon Kyl

1. Senator Jon Kyl was once listed as a consideration for the role of Secretary of Defense under the Trump administration.

2. Senator Jon Kyl was a close friend of McCain's who served three terms alongside him in Congress.

3. Senator Jon Kyl would fill the seat until a special election is held in 2020 to decide who will finish out the final two years of McCain's term.

4. Senator Jon Kyl retired from the Senate in January 2013 after the completion of his third term in office.

5. In 2006 Senator Jon Kyl voted in favour of a bill to authorize the construction of a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexico border in order to limit illegal immigration.

6. Senator Jon Kyl earned bachelor's and law (1966) degrees from the University of Arizona, where he served as president of the Arizona Law Review.

7. Senator Jon Kyl served in the US Senate for about four months in 2018, resigning Dec 31.

8. Senator Jon Kyl initially joined Covington in early 2013 in the same position after retiring from the US Senate as the second-highest ranking Republican senator.

9. Senator Jon Kyl announced in December that he would not stay for the remainder of McCain's term, which ends in 2020.

10. Senator Jon Kyl had served in the Senate from 1994 to 2013 and served in the US House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995.

11. Senator Jon Kyl indicated early on that his return to the Senate would be brief.

12. Senator Jon Kyl represented Arizona in the US Senate for nearly two decades before beginning his career at Covington.

13. On November 7, 2006, Senator Jon Kyl defeated real estate developer and former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Jim Pederson to win his third term in the Senate.

14. In 2012, Senator Jon Kyl voted against ratification of the UN Treaty Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

15. In 2011, Senator Jon Kyl said that the GOP had abandoned opposition to defense cuts.

16. Senator Jon Kyl voted against the Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

17. In November 2010, Senator Jon Kyl announced that he would oppose the New START arms control treaty's ratification in the lame-duck session.

18. Senator Jon Kyl resigned from the Senate one minute before midnight on December 31, 2018, and will be succeeded by Martha McSally.

19. Senator Jon Kyl voted in favor of the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

20. Senator Jon Kyl is only the sixth person to return to the Senate via appointment since the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913.

21. Senator Jon Kyl is the only Arizona Republican to hold such a powerful leadership position.

22. Senator Jon Kyl was elected by his fellow Senate Republicans to a succession of leadership posts: Policy Committee chairman, Conference chairman (2007), and most recently (in December 2007), Senate Minority Whip.

23. Senator Jon Kyl served in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995.

24. Senator Jon Kyl is married to Caryll Collins, with whom he has had two children.

25. Senator Jon Kyl worked as an attorney at Mountain States Legal Foundation in Denver, Colorado, prior to running for office.

26. Senator Jon Kyl is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, as is Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona.

27. Senator Jon Kyl resigned from the Senate at the end of December 31, 2018, and was succeeded by Martha McSally, who was appointed to the seat.

28. Senator Jon Kyl is the first person to return to the Senate via appointment since New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton in 1975.

29. Senator Jon Kyl announced in February 2011 that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2012 and would retire at the end of his third term.

30. Senator Jon Kyl was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 for his persuasive role in the Senate.

31. Senator Jon Kyl was ranked by National Journal in 2007 as the fourth-most conservative US Senator.

32. Senator Jon Kyl was elected to the US Senate in 1994 and continued to be re-elected by comfortable margins until his retirement in January 2013.

33. Senator Jon Kyl worked in Phoenix, Arizona as an attorney and lobbyist before winning election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1987 to 1995.

34. Senator Jon Kyl was appointed to the Senate on September 5, 2018, succeeding the late John McCain.