Mike Huckabee (born in 1955), was the republican governor of the American State of the Arkansas of July 1996 with the January 9th 2007.

Biography

Mike Huckabee was born the August 24th, 1955 with Hope in Arkansas.

Graduate in Right, Mike Huckabee is Pasteur of the church Baptist.

In 1993, Huckabee is elected at the post of Lieutenant-Governor of Arkansas, alone republican at a station of the so high executive of a State of tradition preserving and democratic. He is re-elected in 1994, in spite of his bad relationships to certain personalities of the democratic executive of the State.

The July 15th 1996, he becomes governor of Arkansas to finish the mandate of the outgoing governor, the democratic Jim Guy Tucker, implied in the accounting scandal of Whitewater and constrained to resign with so much of reserve which he had twice to be caught there before yielding the capacity definitively.

Governor, Huckabee made vote vast tax cuts, but also of measurements simplifying the complex procedure of registration of the vehicles or of measurements weighing down the tax on the sales of Carburant and Cigarette S. It contributed to the development of a program aiming at extending the medical cover to the underprivileged children of the families.

In November 1998, Huckabee is confirmed for 4 years a whole mandate by the voters of Arkansas.

It makes carry out a handing-over on level and a modernization of the highway network of Arkansas, then one of worst of the country.

In November 2002, it is re-elected for new a 4 years mandate.

In 2003, it must reform the system of financing of the schools, but its plan encounters critical sharp and strong oppositions.

Huckabee is an at the same time popular politician and very criticized on its left and its right-hand side. His wife was candidate at the post of Secretary of State of Arkansas whereas itself was already governor. Lastly, he did not hesitate to qualify his State of banana republic during a satirical emission.

Governor, it granted a handing-over of sorrow while forgiving to one condemned for rape which then made a murder in the Neighboring state of the Missouri.

In 2005, Time Magazine quoted it among the five best governors (or one of five the most powerful) of the United States, in particular for its action in favor of more than 60.000 people disaster victims after the passage of the Ouragan Katrina.

In December 2005, he is the 18th most popular governor of the country with a rate of approval of 60%, ex æquo with the governors Sony Perdue of Georgia and Kenny Guinn of the Nevada (bearing SurveyUSA Survey on 600 residents of each State carried out from December 9th to 11th 2005. Margin of error of 4%).

Arrived at the end of its second and last mandate in 2006, it cannot be represented. He is then the third governor of Arkansas to being remained also a long time at this station (after Orval Faubus of 1955 with 1967 and Bill Clinton of 1979 with 1981 and of 1983 with 1992).

In 2007, this popular Christian conservative , also known for its hostile positions with the Abortion, is candidate with the republican nomination for the presidential election of 2008. In a publicity campaign, he announces that its program for the defense of the country holds in two words: " Chuck Norris "

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