Mike DeWine
Governor of Ohio since 2019
Richard Michael DeWine ( də-WYNE; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th governor of Ohio since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, as a United States senator from Ohio from 1995 to 2007, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991.
A native of Yellow Springs, Ohio, DeWine graduated from Miami University in 1969 and Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1972. He was an assistant prosecutor in Greene County, Ohio, and served one term as county prosecutor from 1977 to 1981. He continued his political career in the Ohio Senate from 1981 to 1982, and then served four terms as a U.S. representative from 1983 until 1991. From 1991 to 1994, he served as the 59th lieutenant governor of Ohio, under Governor George Voinovich.
DeWine was elected to the U.S. Senate in a landslide during the 1994 Republican Revolution, and sat on the Senate Appropriations; Judiciary; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP); and Select Intelligence Committees. He was reelected in 2000 and defeated in 2006 by Democrat Sherrod Brown. DeWine returned to politics four years later as the 50th attorney general of Ohio. In that office, he challenged the Affordable Care Act and tackled the opioid epidemic.
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