Steven Alexzander Horsford was born on April 29,1973 and is an American politician and businessman serving as the US representative for Nevada's 4th congressional district since 2019, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2015.
28 Facts About Steven Horsford
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Steven Horsford lost to Republican nominee Cresent Hardy in 2014.
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When Steven Horsford was 19, his father, Gary Shelton, was killed.
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Steven Horsford received a degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014.
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Steven Horsford was CEO of the Culinary Training Academy, a job training program.
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Steven Horsford served on the Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board.
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Steven Horsford became the fourth African American to serve as a state senator since the Nevada legislature first convened in 1864.
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Steven Horsford served in six special sessions and four regular sessions of the Nevada legislature.
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In October 2011, Steven Horsford announced he would run for Congress, but did not know at the time which district he would run in because the Nevada legislature had not finished the redistricting maps.
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Steven Horsford decided to run in the newly created 4th congressional district, which includes the northern portion of Clark County as well as all or part of the rural counties of Lincoln, White Pine, Nye, Esmeralda, Mineral and Douglas.
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Tarkanian won the district's rural counties by margins of better than 2-to-1, but Steven Horsford carried Clark County, home to four-fifths of the district's voters, by 28,800 votes.
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Steven Horsford was narrowly defeated by Republican state Assemblyman Cresent Hardy, who in 2016 lost reelection after a single term.
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Steven Horsford announced in January 2018 that he would run to replace retiring incumbent Ruben Kihuen in Nevada's 4th congressional district.
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Steven Horsford did not resign from the Nevada Senate, as it would not be in session before the end of his term on February 4,2013.
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Steven Horsford is a member of the House Progressive Caucus, and the only caucus member to support the September 30,2013, continuing resolution that contained a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate.
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On February 1,2023, Steven Horsford voted against a resolution to end the COVID-19 national emergency.
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Steven Horsford has said that Congress needed to address immigration as a whole, not just young people living in the country illegally.
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Steven Horsford said increased border security with Mexico and Canada was needed, but that a southern border wall would not solve the immigration problem.
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On December 18,2019, Steven Horsford voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, including abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Steven Horsford believes that all Americans should have health care of the sort veterans and senior citizens receive.
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Steven Horsford was active in arranging for Nevada to host the second national presidential caucus in 2008.
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Steven Horsford was an early supporter of Barack Obama's candidacy, co-chairing Obama's campaign in the state.
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Steven Horsford was the national vice chairman of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and served as the Democratic National Committeeman for the State of Nevada.
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Steven Horsford is married to Sonya Douglass Steven Horsford, a professor of educational leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Steven Horsford is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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Steven Horsford had six-way open heart bypass surgery in 2013 to treat a hereditary condition.
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In May 2020, Steven Horsford acknowledged an extramarital affair with Gabriela Linder, a former intern of Senator Harry Reid.
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Linder, 15 years younger than Steven Horsford, said the relationship lasted from 2009, when she was a 21-year-old college student and he was majority leader in the Nevada state senate, until April 2020.