Mark Neumann

Mark W. Neumann ( born February 27, 1954 in East Troy, Wisconsin ) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 1999 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After high school, Mark Neumann studied at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, among other mathematics. Subsequently he worked as a mathematics teacher. He was also a coach for football and basketball. He also went into the real estate business. He was the founder and owner of the company Neumann Developments Inc., headquartered in Janesville.

Politically, Neumann joined the Republican Party. In 1993, he ran unsuccessfully still at a by-election to Congress. In the 1994 elections, he was then but in the first electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Peter W. Barca on January 3, 1995. After a re-election in 1996, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1999, two legislative sessions. There he was a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee.

1998 renounced Neumann on a renewed candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, where he came to 48.4 percent of the vote and nearly lost to Democrat Russ Feingold. In the following years he was a candidate for any higher public office. In April 2009, he announced his candidacy for the gubernatorial election of 2010. On 14 September 2010 he was defeated in the Republican primaries later the victorious even in the actual election Scott Walker.

Mark Neumann is married and father of three children.