Jim Doyle

See also: Doyle

Jim Doyle (born in 1945) is an American politician, member of the Democratic party and 44ème governor of the American state of the Wisconsin since January 2003.

Jim Doyle was born the November 23rd 1945 with Madison, Wisconsin. His/her parents were James E. Doyle Sr. and Ruth Bachhuber Doyle, founding members of the Democratic party of Wisconsin. James E. Doyle, Sr. for the post of governor in 1954 will contribute and was named federal judge in 1965 whereas Ruth Doyle was, in 1948, the first elected woman of the county of Dane at the assembly of state of Wisconsin.

Graduate of the university of Madison, Doyle left in Africa to enlist in the Peace Corps with the call of the president John F. Kennedy.

In 1972, Doyle obtained its diploma in right of the university of Harvard then joined the Indian reserve Navajo of Chinle in Arizona where he worked as an attorney.

In 1975, Doyle returned to Madison and was made elect District Attorney of the county of Dane.

After 3 mandates between 1977 and 1982, it spent the eight following years within a law firm.

In 1990, Doyle was elected Attorney General of Wisconsin and was re-elected in 1994 and 1998.

It marked its mandates by great victories against the companies of tobacco.

In January 2001, the very popular one and indéboulonnable republican governor Tommy Thompson resigned to join the government of George W. Bush as a Secretary of State to health.

The lieutenant-governor Scott McCallum replaced Thompson to finish his 2 last years of mandate.

McCallum inherited a budget deficit of the very important state that he did not manage to reabsorb during these 2 years while taking unpopular measures. Doyle benefitted from it to show McCallum of incompetence out of tax matter.

The electoral campaign of 2002 for the post of governor is regarded as being one of the most negative campaigns of the history of the state where the candidates inveighed themselves in various anathemas. The disinterest growing towards the 2 principal candidates supported ED Thompson, the candidate libertarien who at the evening of the elections in November 2002, obtena one surprising 10% of the voices. Nevertheless, this success libertarien supported the election of Jim Doyle at the post of governor with 45% of the votes compared with 41% with the outgoing governor republican Scott McCallum.

The victory of Doyle put an end to 16 years a republican reign to this function.

Doyle took its station the January 6th 2003 in Madison making it possible to the democrats to carry out the large slam at all the stations of the executive of the state. Thus, in addition to the 2 Democratic senators of the state, the governor, the lieutenant-governor, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State were also democratic and thus made vis-a-vis a local legislature whose two rooms were on the other hand dominated by the republicans.

Doyle managed to reabsorb the deficit without increasing the taxes but due unceasingly to negotiate with a hostile legislature.

In December 2005, it is the 34ème the most popular governor of the country with a rate of approval of 48% (against 44% of negative opinions), ex æquo with the governor George Pataki of New York (bearing SurveyUSA Survey on 600 residents of each state carried out from December 9th to 11th 2005. Margin of error of 4%).

In November 2006, Jim Doyle is re-elected with 53% of the voices compared with 45% with its republican challenger Mark Green.

Married, Doyle is father of 2 children, today adults.

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