Kevin Cramer

Kevin Cramer ( born January 21, 1961 in Rolla, North Dakota) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Kevin Cramer visited the Kindred High School and thereafter until 1983, the Concordia College in Moorhead (Minnesota). Subsequently, he studied until 2003 at the University of Mary in Bismarck. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. From 1991 to 1993 he was the State Chairman for North Dakota. Between 1993 and 1997 he served as director of tourism of his state. In the years 1996 and 1998, he ran unsuccessfully for each U.S. House of Representatives. From 1997 to 2000 he was responsible for business development and the finances of his state; 2003-2012 he worked as a Public Service Commissioner Commissioner for the Civil Service in North Dakota. In 2010, he failed in the primaries of his party, as he strove their nomination for the upcoming congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 2012 Cramer but then in the state-wide constituency of North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC was chosen, where he took over from Rick Berg on January 3, 2013, the unsuccessful bemügte for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In the election he reached 54 percent of the vote. His Democratic counterpart candidate Pam Gulleson came to 42 percent. Cramer is a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Kevin Cramer is married and the father of five children.