Steve Daines

Steven "Steve" Daines ( born August 20, 1962 in Van Nuys, California) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Steve Daines attended Bozeman High School in Montana and then studied until 1984 at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he was trained as a chemical engineer. He then worked for 13 years for the Cincinnati -based Procter & Gamble. He spent six years working for this company in China. In 1997 he left Procter & Gamble to enter the family owned construction company. Since 2000 he worked for the software company RightNow Technologies, which was established in Bozeman. He was the Vice President for North America and the Asia -Pacific region. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. He was a supporter of President Ronald Reagan. In August 1984 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Dallas, has been nominated to the Reagan re-election. In 2008, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Montana.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Daines was in the state-wide electoral district of Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Denny Rehberg took on January 3, 2013, who unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In the election he came to 53 percent of the vote against 43 percent who reached Kim Gillian of the Democratic Party. In Congress, he is a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Steve Daines has been married for 26 years and has four children. Privately, he lives in Bozeman.