Brian Schweitzer

Brian Schweitzer (born in 1955) is since the January 3rd 2005 the democratic governor of the American State of the Montana.

From German-Irish stock, Brian Schweitzer was born in Havre in 1955. Fourth of a family of six children, it grown in the family ranch of Judith Basin, Montana.

It is graduate in science and agronomy of the University of Colorado and of a control in science of the university of Montana.

It Marie in 1981 in Nancy Hupp which will give him three children.

Its community activity concerning the development of the techniques of irrigation will lead it in Africa, in Asia, in Europe, in South America and, during seven years, in Saudi Arabia.

In 1986, it settles definitively in Montana where it builds a ranch.

Its agricultural experiment is recognized and appreciated and it is recruited in the administration of Bill Clinton, with the secretariat with agriculture between 1993 and 1999.

In 2000, it is presented to the American senate against the outgoing preserving Republican senator of Montana, Conrad Burns. Schweitzer is beaten of accuracy with 47% of the voices compared with 51% with Burns.

In 2004, it does not hesitate to take a republican fellow candidate, John Bohlinger, now lieutenant-governor of the State, to present itself to the election of the governor.

The November 2nd 2004, whereas Montana voted by plebiscite George W. Bush with the presidential election, the voters of the state also elected Brian Schweitzer at the post of governor with 50% of the voices compared with 46% with its republican adversary, the Secretary of State, Bob Brown.

In December 2005, he is the 8th most popular governor of the country with a rate of approval of 65%, ex æquo with the governors Jim Douglas of the Vermont and Dave Freudenthal of the Wyoming (bearing SurveyUSA Survey on 600 residents of each state carried out from December 9th to 11th 2005. Margin of error of 4%).

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