Jay Inslee
Jay Robert Inslee ( born February 9, 1951 in Seattle, Washington) is an American politician. Inslee is since January 14, 2013 Governor of the U.S. state of Washington.
Career
Jay Inslee visited until 1969, the Ingraham High School. He then studied in the years 1969 and 1970 at Stanford University in California and then to 1972 at the University of Washington. After studying law at Willamette University in Oregon and its made in 1976 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. Between 1976 and 1984, Inslee legal representative of the city of Selah.
Politically, Inslee joined the Democratic Party. Between 1988 and 1992 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Washington. In the congressional elections in 1992, he was in the fourth electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Sid Morrison on January 3, 1993. Since he has not been confirmed in 1994, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until January 3, 1995. 1996 sought unsuccessfully Inslee at his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections. Between 1997 and 1998 he was a regional department head in the Department of Health.
1998 Inslee was elected to Congress again in the first district of Washington. There he broke off on 3 January 1999 Rick White. In Congress, Inslee was considered progressive; he was a staunch opponent of the Iraq war. He was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee for the management of natural resources ( Committee on Natural Resources ). He was also represented in two sub-committees. Since 1972, he is married to Trudi Inslee, with whom he has three sons.
On 20 March 2012, he resigned to devote himself to his candidacy as governor of Washington. The election, which took place in early November 2012 Inslee could just decide for himself when he was able to unite around 51 percent of the electorate votes.
In February 2014 Inslee imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in the U.S. state ruled by him.