John Hickenlooper
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John Hickenlooper | |
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| 42nd Governor of Colorado | |
In office January 11, 2011 – January 8, 2019 | |
| Lieutenant | Joe Garcia Donna Lynne |
| Preceded by | Bill Ritter |
| Succeeded by | Jared Polis |
| Chair of the National Governors Association | |
In office July 13, 2014 – July 25, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Mary Fallin |
| Succeeded by | Gary Herbert |
| 43rd Mayor of Denver | |
In office July 21, 2003 – January 11, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Wellington Webb |
| Succeeded by | Bill Vidal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. (1952-02-07) February 7, 1952 Narberth, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Thorpe (m. 2002; div. 2015) Robin Pringle (m. 2016) |
| Children | 1 son |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA, MS) |
| Website | www.hickenlooper.com |
John Wright Hickenlooper Jr.[1] (/ˈhɪkənluːpər/; born February 7, 1952) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 42nd Governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. In 2019, he announced that he is running for President of the United States in 2020.[2]
Born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, Hickenlooper is a graduate of Wesleyan University. After his career as a geologist, Hickenlooper entered a career in business and cofounded the Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver. Hickenlooper was elected the 43rd mayor of Denver in 2003, serving two terms, until 2011.
After incumbent governor Bill Ritter announced that he would not seek reelection, Hickenlooper announced his intentions to run for the Democratic nomination, in January 2010. He won in an uncontested primary and faced Constitution Party candidate, former representative Tom Tancredo, and Republican businessman Dan Maes in the general election, which he won with 51% of the vote. He was re-elected to a second term in 2014, defeating Republican former U.S. representative Bob Beauprez by 49% to 46%.
Contents
1 Early life, education and career
2 Mayor of Denver
3 Governor of Colorado
4 Political positions
4.1 Homelessness
4.2 Cannabis legalization
4.3 Gun control
4.4 Capital punishment
4.5 Health care
4.6 Disaster recovery
4.7 Energy and environment
4.8 Economic growth
5 Political campaigns
5.1 2006 Colorado gubernatorial race
5.2 2008 Democratic National Convention
5.3 2008 Senate seat appointment
5.4 2010 Colorado gubernatorial race
5.5 2014 Colorado gubernatorial race
5.6 2018 GiddyUp PAC
5.7 2020 presidential campaign
6 Personal life
6.1 In popular culture
7 Electoral history
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Early life, education and career
Hickenlooper was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, a middle-class area of the suburban Main Line of Philadelphia.[3] He is the son of Anne Doughten (née Morris) Kennedy and John Wright Hickenlooper.[4][5][6][7] His paternal great-grandfather Andrew Hickenlooper was a Union general, and his paternal grandfather, Smith Hickenlooper, was a United States federal judge.[8][9]
Hickenlooper was raised by his mother from a young age after his father's death. A 1970 graduate of The Haverford School, an independent boys school in Haverford, Pennsylvania, he went on[10] to attend Wesleyan University, where he received a B.A. in English in 1974, and a master's degree in geology in 1980.
Hickenlooper worked as a geologist in Colorado for Buckhorn Petroleum in the early 1980s. When Buckhorn was sold, Hickenlooper was laid off in 1986.[11] He and five business partners opened the Wynkoop Brewing Company brewpub in October 1988 after raising startup funds from dozens of friends and family along with a Denver economic development office loan. The Wynkoop was one of the first brewpubs in the United States. Denver currently boasts more brewpubs per capita than any other city.[12]
The Wynkoop was opened in Denver's then-derelict LoDo neighborhood. After struggling the first year, Hickenlooper brokered a cooperative arrangement with nearby restaurants and businesses, working together to draw customers and negotiate better pricing with vendors. Their efforts contributed to the redevelopment of the area as a thriving entertainment district.[13] Hickenlooper sold his stake in the Wynkoop in 2007 to a group of managers and employees for a reported $7 million. He said, “Every good entrepreneur’s dream is to build an enterprise that is successful enough that someday it will be an enterprise the employees can take over. We are turning it over to the people who helped create the enterprise.”[14]
As a successful small business owner, Hickenlooper became naturally involved in civic proceedings. He was a member of local boards, catered and sponsored charity events, and became acquainted with fellow entrepreneurs and city leaders. According to Politico: "This made Hickenlooper a player, an influencer, in a city without any imposing blue-blood establishment. It also exposed Hickenlooper to the inner-workings of a political class he found unresponsive to the needs of the city.[15] “I'm not the typical little guy who makes it big. In the process of building a business, I’ve been involved with the community and I’ve never shied away from speaking up when politicians didn’t do so," he told the New York Times after his 2003 election to Denver Mayor.[16]
Mayor of Denver
Hickenlooper was elected the 43rd mayor of Denver in 2003. TIME Magazine named him one of America’s five best big-city mayors in 2005, noting, “he dispensed with the partisan and sometimes imperious manner of past Denver mayors to accomplish quite a bit during his brief tenure. When Hickenlooper, who is called Mayor Hick, took office in July 2003, he inherited a $70 million budget deficit, the worst in city history.”[17]
In his first term, Hickenlooper eliminated the city's budget deficit, changed its career personnel system and won bipartisan support tax increases for quality-of-life initiatives, including a $4.7 billion mass-transit project, bringing a light rail system to Metro Denver.[18]
In May 2007, Hickenlooper won re-election as mayor with 88% of the vote.[19] Considered a "purple" democrat, Hickenlooper was supported by many of Denver's top Republican business leaders. Denver’s 5280 magazine said: “As far as real-life political fairy tales go, it was just about impossible to trump Mayor Hickenlooper. He was a new kind of natural, one of those unicorn-rare, truly apolitical politicians that career politicos so often and so fraudulently claim to be.”[20]
Hickenlooper resigned as mayor at 8 am on January 11, 2011, hours before his inauguration as Colorado's governor.
Governor of Colorado
Hickenlooper in February 2012
On January 11, 2011, Hickenlooper was sworn in as the 42nd governor of Colorado by fifteen points. Hickenlooper was the second Denver mayor ever elected to Colorado governor. His victory was a landslide despite democrats overal poor results in the 2010 elections. Republicans flipped twelve governorships nationwide in 2010.[21] As Colorado governor, Hickenlooper achieved bipartisan approval. He achieved economic growth in both the metro area and the republican-dominated suburbs and rural counties of Colorado. During his tenure, the state went from 40th in job creation to 4th. He accomplilshed Medicaid expansion, infrastructure growth, reductions in state regulations and a balanced budget. He is considered a pro-business democrat and also a strong supporter of the oil and gas industry.[22]
On December 4, 2012, he was elected to serve as vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.[23] He currently serves on the Western Governors' Association, and served as the chairman of the National Governors' Association from July 2014 to July 2015.
On August 25, 2017, it was reported that Republican Governor of Ohio John Kasich was considering the possibility of a 2020 unity ticket to run against Donald Trump with Kasich at the top and Hickenlooper as vice president.[24]
Constitutionally limited to two consecutive terms,[25] Hickenlooper could not run for governor in 2018.
Political positions
Hickenlooper during the World Economic Forum 2013
Homelessness
Since 2003, Hickenlooper has campaigned for increasing services to the homeless.[26] As Denver Mayor, he announced a "10 Year Plan to End Homelessness" at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. Cities across the country including Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Atlanta made similar plans.[27] Hickenlooper's Denver Commission on Homelessness included members from public agencies, non-profits, businesses, and the faith community. [28]
Cannabis legalization
In 2000, Colorado voters passed Initiative 20, which legalized marijuana for medical use. In 2006, Denver became one of the first major U.S. cities to legalize the medical use of and decriminalize possession (of less than one ounce) of cannabis by those over age 18. Hickenlooper, then a co-owner of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, opposed the cannabis rescheduling initiative, which voters approved 53.49%–46.51%, but he did say that the vote "reflect[s] a genuine shift in people's attitudes". Under the current Denver Police interpretation of the law, supported by Hickenlooper, the initiative does not usurp the state law, the Colorado Revised Statutes (CRS). In 2012, Amendment 64 was added to the Colorado constitution allowing possession of up to one ounce of cannabis for those over 21 for recreational use. Though Hickenlooper had been publicly against this policy as well, he said he would enforce the will of the people.[29]
On January 23, 2015, he said that "This was a bad idea",[30] that other governors should wait and see what the consequences will be. As Colorado's new laws have been implemented and the results become more clear, Hickenlooper has indicated that his views have evolved, stating in May 2016 that Colorado's approach to cannabis legalization is "beginning to look like it might work".[31]
Gun control
On March 20, 2013, Hickenlooper signed bills HB1224, HB1228 and HB1229. HB1224 created a limit of 15 rounds in magazines that could be bought, sold or transferred within the state. HB1229 requires background checks for any firearm transfer within the state, and HB1228 taxes firearm transfers to recover costs of the background checks from HB1229.[32] Opponents of these bills gathered enough signatures to trigger special recall elections that resulted in the recall of Democratic senate president John Morse, and Democratic senator Angela Giron. Democratic senator Evie Hudak later resigned rather than face her own recall election on this issue.[33]
Hickenlooper is a member of the gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Boston mayor Thomas Menino.
In 2018, Hickenlooper supported a Red Flag or Extreme Risk Protection Order bill in the legislature that would have allowed judges to temporally restrict firearm access to those who were deemed a significant risk to themselves or others.[34] The GOP-controlled State Senate never let the bill out of committee that legislative session.[35]
Capital punishment
On May 22, 2013, Hickenlooper granted an indefinite stay of execution to Nathan Dunlap, who was facing execution for the 1993 murder of four employees at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. The decision came after victims' families asked Hickenlooper to allow the execution of Dunlap to proceed as scheduled.[36] Hickenlooper stated: "It is a legitimate question whether we as a state should be taking lives."[37]
In Hickenlooper’s 2016 memoir, he came out against the death penalty. He explained that his views on the death penalty changed after becoming more familiarized with the research showing bias against minorities and people with mental illnesses.[38]
Health care
In 2011, Hickenlooper signed SB11-200 which had passed through the Republican-held state house to create Colorado’s health care exchange.[39] In 2013, Hickenlooper signed SB13-200 to expand Medicaid as a part of the Affordable Care Act.[40] After these changes, Colorado’s insured rate rose to 93.5 percent.[41] He opposes Medicare for All, citing research that more than 100 million Americans are satisfied with their current, employer-provided insurance plan. Saying it would "make no sense" to force them into a new program that costs trillions to implement.
Disaster recovery
In May 2014, Hickenlooper signed legislation to provide better disaster relief to Coloradans after record-setting floods and wildfires had ravaged the state and destroyed homes, schools, roads, and watersheds. The bills distributed $5 million in grants to remove flood debris from watersheds, earmarked construction funding for flood-damaged schools and budgeted $17 million in grants for repairs to damaged wastewater and drinking water systems.[42] One of the bills called for the state to pay the property taxes of people who lost homes in Colorado floods or wildfires, which accounted for about 2500 destroyed or damaged homes.
Energy and environment
Hickenlooper’s administration created the first methane-capture regulations for oil and gas companies in the entire country. The rules prevented 95% of volatile organic compounds and methane from leaking from hydraulic fracturing wells.[43] The rules were later used as blueprints for California, Canada, and the federal government’s own new rules.[44]
After President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be leaving the Paris Climate Accord, Hickenlooper joined more than a dozen other states in sticking with the greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.[45]
Hickenlooper is a supporter of the oil and gas industry. In opposition to most Democrats, Hickenlooper supports hydraulic fracking, a deep oil drilling procedure and controversial political issue in Colorado.[46] Before politics, Hickenlooper's first career was as a geologist and believes fracking is a beneficial practice with minimal environmental harm. He famously drank a glas of fracking fluid produced by oilfield services giant Halliburton to demonstrate the safety.[47]
Economic growth
In March 2014, he signed House Bill 1241, which funds the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI). "The program has a total grant budget of $2.7 million, of which $530,000 has been awarded. Right now, seven projects are under consideration, representing $20 million in capital investment and more than 150 new jobs in rural areas."[48]
In 2016, Hickenlooper launched a program called Skillful, with the help of LinkedIn and the Markle Foundation. The program uses online tools and on-the-ground advisors to help businesses create job descriptions to tap into a wider job pool and help job seekers fill high-need jobs and connect them with job training.[49] Twenty other states are now following. In 2017, Skillful added the Governors Coaching Corps. program, a career coaching initiative operated out of workforce center, community colleges, and nonprofits, with the help of a $25.8 million grant from Microsoft.[50]
In 2018, Colorado was ranked by US News as having the number one economy in the country.[51]
Hickenlooper calls himself “a fiscal conservative.” He says, “I don’t think the government needs to be bigger. I think the government’s got to work, and people have got to believe in government, and I think that’s part of the problem,” he says. “I think what a lot of Americans want is better government, not bigger government.”[52]
Political campaigns
2006 Colorado gubernatorial race
Hickenlooper was viewed as a possible contender for governor of Colorado in the November 2006 election to replace term-limited Republican governor Bill Owens. Despite a "Draft Hick" campaign, he officially announced on February 6, 2006, that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for governor. Later, he threw his support behind Democratic candidate Bill Ritter, Denver's former district attorney, who was subsequently elected.[53]
2008 Democratic National Convention
Hickenlooper speaks on the first day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Hickenlooper was an executive member of the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee and helped lead the successful campaign for Denver to host the landmark 2008 Democratic National Convention, which was also the centennial anniversary of the city's hosting of the 1908 Democratic National Convention.
In a controversial move decried by critics as breaching partisan ethics, the Hickenlooper administration arranged for the DNC host committee members, a private non-profit organization, to get untaxed fuel from Denver city-owned pumps, saving them $0.404 per gallon of fuel.[54] Once the arrangement came to light, the host committee agreed to pay taxes on the fuel already consumed, and to pay taxes on all future fuel purchases.[55]
Also, Coors brewing company based in Golden, Colorado, used "waste beer" to provide the ethanol to power a fleet of FlexFuel vehicles used during the convention.[56]
2008 Senate seat appointment
According to The Denver Post, he was considered to be the frontrunner to fill the United States Senate seat to be vacated by Ken Salazar upon his expected confirmation to be Secretary of the Interior in the Obama Administration.[57] Hickenlooper had confirmed his interest in the seat.[58] However, on January 3, 2009, Gov. Bill Ritter appointed Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to the position.[59] Bennet previously served as chief of staff to Mayor Hickenlooper.
2010 Colorado gubernatorial race
After Ritter announced on January 6, 2010, that he would step down at the end of his term, Hickenlooper was cited as a potential candidate for governor.[60] Hickenlooper stated that if Secretary Salazar mounted a bid for governor, he would likely not challenge him in a Democratic primary.[61] On January 7, 2010, Salazar confirmed that he would not be running for governor in 2010 and endorsed Hickenlooper for the position.[62] On January 12, 2010, media outlets reported that Hickenlooper would begin a campaign for Colorado governor.[63] On August 5, 2010, Hickenlooper selected CSU-Pueblo president Joseph A. Garcia as his running mate.[64] In the general election, Hickenlooper was elected with 51% of the vote, ahead of former congressman Tom Tancredo, running on the American Constitution Party ticket, who finished with 36.4% of the vote.[65]
2014 Colorado gubernatorial race
Hickenlooper won a tightly contested gubernatorial election by winning a plurality of 49.0% of the vote against Republican businessman Bob Beauprez.[66]
2018 GiddyUp PAC
In September 2018, term-limited Hickenlooper created the GiddyUp PAC to become more involved in national politics.
Logo for Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign.
2020 presidential campaign
On March 4, 2019, Hickenlooper announced his campaign to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.[67]
Personal life
Hickenlooper married Robin Pringle on January 16, 2016.[68] His first wife, Helen Thorpe, is a writer whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, George, and Texas Monthly. In 2010, Hickenlooper told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he and Thorpe attended Quaker meetings and tried to live by Quaker values.[69] Prior to the separation, they lived in Denver's Park Hill neighborhood with their son, Teddy.[70] Upon taking office as governor, Hickenlooper and his family decided to maintain their private residence instead of moving to the Colorado Governor's Mansion.[71] On July 31, 2012, Hickenlooper announced that he and Thorpe were separating after 10 years of marriage.[72] Following his divorce, Hickenlooper moved into the Governor's Mansion.
A cousin, George Hickenlooper, who died in late 2010, was an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker.[73] He is the great-grandson of Civil War general Andrew Hickenlooper and the grandson of Federal Judge Smith Hickenlooper.
Other relatives include pianist Olga Samaroff (née Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper), who was the first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski; and Bourke Hickenlooper, who served as governor of Iowa and a U.S. senator from Iowa.[74]
Kurt Vonnegut was a friend of Hickenlooper's father. Meeting later in life, Vonnegut offered advice that came to guide Hickenlooper's life: “Be very careful who you pretend to be, because that’s who you’re going to be.”[75]
Hickenlooper is an avid squash player and continues to compete as a ranked player in national tournaments.
In popular culture
- For a 2004 roast of the then-mayor of Denver, Kurt Vonnegut declared in a joke video that he was Hickenlooper’s real father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3ggwdN_I0
- Hickenlooper appears in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Timequake.[76] The famous author had been college friends with Hickenlooper's father.
- In November 2012, Esquire interviewed Hickenlooper as one of the "Americans of the Year 2012".[77]
- Hickenlooper made a cameo appearance in his cousin George Hickenlooper's 2010 film Casino Jack.[78]
Electoral history
2003 Denver mayoral election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Candidates | General Election[79] | Run-off Election[80] | ||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |
John Hickenlooper | 49,185 | 43.33 | 69,526 | 64.58 |
| Donald J. Mares | 25,308 | 22.29 | 38,126 | 35.42 |
| Aristedes 'Ari' Zavaras | 14,145 | 12.46 | ||
Penfield Tate III | 13,450 | 11.85 | ||
| Susan Casey | 8,162 | 7.19 | ||
| Elizabeth Schlosser | 1,812 | 1.60 | ||
| Phil Perington | 1,247 | 1.10 | ||
| Write-in | 211 | 0.19 | ||
Total | 113,520 | 100 | 107,652 | 100 |
2007 Denver mayoral election [81] | ||
|---|---|---|
Candidates | Votes | % |
John Hickenlooper | 68,568 | 86.30 |
| Danny F. Lopez | 10,053 | 12.65 |
| Write-ins | 834 | 1.05 |
Total | 79,455 | 100 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | John Hickenlooper | 915,436 | 51.05 | ||
Constitution | Tom Tancredo | 652,376 | 36.38 | ||
Republican | Dan Maes | 199,792 | 11.14 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | John Hickenlooper | 1,006,433 | 49.30 | ||
Republican | Bob Beauprez | 938,195 | 45.95 | ||
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Further reading
Lizza, Ryan (May 13, 2013). "The Middleman: Colorado's Governor Finds Himself Leading His State to the Left". The Political Scene. The New Yorker. 89 (13): 26–31. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
Hickenlooper, John; Potter, Maximillian (2016). The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9781101981672. OCLC 929055877.
External links
John Hickenlooper at Curlie
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