Judd Gregg

Judd Alan Gregg ( born February 14, 1947 in Nashua, New Hampshire) from 1993 to 2011 U.S. Senator for the state of New Hampshire. The Republican was 1989-1993 Governor of New Hampshire and was already seated 1981-1989 in the U.S. House of Representatives. On February 3, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him as the new U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Gregg withdrew his candidacy but returned a week later.

Life

Gregg is the son of Hugh Gregg, the governor of New Hampshire from 1953 to 1955. He attended private school Phillips Exeter Academy, received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, and graduated from Boston University in 1972 his JD and his LL.M. in 1975. After graduation, he worked as a lawyer in his hometown.

Gregg is a member of the United Church of Christ. He is married and has two children. In 2005 he won $ 853,492 in the Powerball lottery.

The University of New Hampshire renamed its building for environmental technology in Gregg Hall after it had secured $ 266 million in federal money for the university.

Political career

Gregg won the 1980 elections in his constituency to the U.S. House of Representatives and was the mandate in 1982, 1984 and 1986 to defend. In 1988, he joined then successfully in the election to the governorship of New Hampshire and was also able to defend the Office 1990.

Senate

As his Republican predecessor Warren Rudman no longer took for the Senate to Gregg finally in 1992 applied for a Senate office, prevailed and was able to repeat in 1998 and 2004. In 2004, he struck it with the 94 -year-old 66:34 percent Doris Haddock, who was struck particularly by their commitment to a change in campaign financing. He was from 2005 to 2007 chairman of the committee in the United States Senate Committee on the Budget. Gregg had announced not to run again for the Senate election in November 2010.

Gregg took the occasion of the 2004 presidential election John Kerry during the training debates of George W. Bush for the televised debates; he had already achieved in 2000, when he played Al Gore the same role.

Cabinet

After the originally planned as Trade Minister Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, announced the nomination rejected against him because of an ongoing investigation, was the beginning of February 2009 that President Obama with Judd Gregg planned to appoint a politician of the Republican opposition in his place. On the other hand stirred in the Republican Senate faction first protest, as it was feared, New Hampshire's Democratic governor John Lynch would appoint a Democrat as Gregg's successor and thus expand the Democratic majority in the Senate. Gregg himself had declared his resignation for this case, but then received by a conversation with the governor whose insurance that would follow him a Republican.

Then Gregg declared his consent and was officially nominated by the President. Later it became known that Governor Lynch would appoint as his successor J. Bonnie Newman. It was during Greggs time in the House of Representatives whose chief of staff and worked under Presidents Reagan and Bush for the U.S. government.

Gregg withdrew his candidacy in advance of the resolution of the stimulus package through Congress because of various differences back. He explained that he was fiscally conservative and therefore not always behind President Obama could have stood.