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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
Background
Sinema represented Arizona's 9th district in the House from 2012-2019. In 2018, she was elected US Senator for Arizona for the first
time. Prior to her public-service career, she worked as a social worker, attorney, professor, and instructor at the Center for Progressive
Leadership, a Washington-based institute that trains activists in progressive policies. In 2010, she was elected to the Arizona State
Senate, where she sponsored several bills aimed at curbing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration policies, including
targeted documentation checks. In Congress, Sinema was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, comprising conservative Democrats, and
the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. She has a center-left voting record. In 2015 and 2016, she did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for
majority leader. She has voted with her party 73 percent of the time. In 2017, she voted with President Trump’s position roughly half of
the time. She is the first openly bisexual Congress member.
State Profile Biography Election Results
State: Arizona First Elected: 6/11/2018 2018 General
Status: Junior Senator Party: Democrat Kyrsten Sinema (D) 48%
Serving with: Jon Kyl (R) Birth date: 7/12/1976 Martha McSally (R) 48%
Cook PVI: R+5 Education: PhD, Arizona State University, School of
Justice and Social Inquiry, 2009-2012; JD, Arizona Committees
State University, 2002-2004; MSW, Social Work,
Official Contact Info • TBD
Arizona State University, 1997-1999; Attended,
Brigham Young University
Capitol Hill Office Building: TBD
Family: Divorced
Room Number: TBD
Phone Number: TBD
Facebook: TBD
Instagram: TBD
Twitter: TBD
Slide updated: December 04, 2018
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Background
Jon Kyl grew up in Nebraska, the son of Congressman John Henry Kyl. He moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona, where
he earned both his undergraduate and law degrees. Kyl worked as a lawyer and lobbyist before his election to the US House of
Representatives in 1986. In 1994, Kyl was elected to the US Senate and eventually served as the Senate Minority Whip from 2007 until
his retirement, in 2013. In the Senate, Kyl served on the Judiciary Committee, the Finance Committee and the Deficit Reduction
Committee. He is considered to be a strong and reliably conservative voice in the Senate. Following the death of Sen. John McCain (R-
AZ), Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) appointed Kyl to hold the empty Senate seat until the 2020 election. Kyl has signaled that he
potentially will only serve until the end of the 115th Congress (January 2, 2019), and that he definitely will not seek reelection in 2020.
State Profile Biography Election Results
State: Arizona First Elected: 4/9/2018 2006 General
Status: Senior Senator Party: Republican Jon Kyl (R) 53%
Serving with: Kyrsten Sinema (D) Birth date: 4/25/1942 Jim Pedersen (D) 44%
Cook PVI: R+5 Education: University of Arizona, B.A., 1964; LL.B.,
1966 Committees
Official Contact Info Family: Spouse: Caryll Louise Collins, 2 children ; 7 • Armed Services
grandchildren • Homeland Security and Governmental
Capitol Hill Office Building: Dirksen Affairs
• Indian Affairs
Room Number: G12
Phone Number: (202) 224-2235
Facebook:
Instagram:
Twitter:
Slide updated: December 04, 2018
Rep. Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ-1)
Background
Tom O’Halleran was born in 1946 in Chicago, IL and grew up on a dairy farm. He began serving as a police officer in 1966 and later
became sergeant in a special operations unit. He received three department commendations and other awards. In 1979, O’Halleran
became a government bond trader and served two terms on the Chicago Board of Trade’s executive board of directors as chair and
vice-chair of the finance, floor operations and planning committees. O’Halleran retired in Arizona where he became involved in local
politics. He advocated for natural resource preservation in the state legislature. He was elected to the Arizona House of
Representatives in 2001, served three terms, then became a state senator in 2007. O’Halleran served as vice-chair and chair of the
Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee in the Arizona House of Representatives, and was a member of Education K-12; Ways
and Means; Transportation, Counties and Municipalities; and Environment Committees. In the state Senate, O’Halleran served as vice-
chair and chair of the Higher Education Committee. In 2014, he changed his registration from Republican to Independent, blaming the
party’s inability to legislate on education, water and child-welfare problems.
District Profile Biography Election Results
State: Arizona First Elected: 8/11/2016 2018 General
District: 1st Party: Democrat Tom O'Halleran (D) 54%
Northeast Arizona: Flagstaff, Navajo Nation Birth date: 1/24/1946 Wendy Rogers (R) 46%
Cook PVI: R+2 Education: Attended, DePaul University, 1991-1992;
Attended, Lewis University, 1965-1966 Committees
Official Contact Info Family: Spouse: Pat, 3 children ; 3 grandchildren • Agriculture
• Armed Services
Capitol Hill Office Building: Cannon
Room Number: 126
Phone Number: (202) 225-3361
Facebook: @repohalleran
Instagram: @repohalleran
Twitter: @repohalleran
Slide updated: December 04, 2018
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ-2)
Background
Kirkpatrick majored in Asian studies at the University of Arizona, where she also received her law degree. In 1980, Coconino County
elected Kirkpatrick as its first woman deputy county attorney, and she later served as city attorney for Sedona, Arizona. Kirkpatrick is a
former representative from Arizona's first congressional district. She lost her first reelection campaign in the 2010 midterms, but
regained her seat in a close 2012 race. In 2016 she unsuccessfully challenged Republican Sen. John McCain for his U.S. Senate seat.
After Republican Rep. Martha McSally announced she would run for Sen. Jeff Flake's open seat, Kirkpatrick announced she would run to
fill the open second district seat, which encompasses most of Tucson.
District Profile Biography Election Results
State: Arizona First Elected: 6/11/2018 2018 General
District: 2nd Party: Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick (D) 54%
Southeast Arizona: Tucson, Cochise County Birth date: 3/24/1950 Lea Marquez Peterson (R) 46%
Cook PVI: R+1 Education: JD, James E. Rogers College of Law,
University of Arizona, 1979; BA, University of Arizona, Committees
1972
Official Contact Info • TBD
Family: Spouse: Roger; 4 Children
Capitol Hill Office Building: TBD
Room Number: TBD
Phone Number: TBD
Facebook: TBD
Instagram: TBD
Twitter: TBD
Slide updated: December 04, 2018
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-3)
Background
Raúl Grijalva, representative of Arizona’s 3rd district, is one of the House’s most liberal members. He grew up in Tucson, as the son of a
guest worker who emigrated from Mexico in 1945. Grijalva graduated from the University of Arizona and has lived in the city all of his
life, involving himself very much in the immigrant community on the city’s southwest side. Having previously served on the Pima
County Board of Supervisors, Grijalva ran to be Arizona’s 7th congressional district representative, gaining a 20-point victory. In office,
he worked to defend underrepresented voices, especially those of immigrants and workers with unlivable wages. Grijalva was widely
mentioned in 2008 as a possible nominee for interior secretary and was supported by several national Hispanic organizations and then-
Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV); however, Obama announced Dick Cheney as his choice. In 2014, Grijalva
was elected as Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, strengthening his platform of progressive environmental
views. Grijalva also serves on the Committee of Education and Warfare, is the Co-Chair on the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and is
a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
District Profile Biography Election Results
State: Arizona First Elected: 5/11/2002 2018 General
District: 3rd Party: Democrat Raul Grijalva (D) 63%
Southwest Arizona: Yuma, Nogales Birth date: 2/19/1948 Nicolas Pierson (R) 37%
Cook PVI: D+13 Education: BA, Sociology, University of Arizona, 1987
Committees
Family: Spouse: Ramona, 3 children
Official Contact Info • Education and the Workforce
• Natural Resources
Capitol Hill Office Building: Longworth
Room Number: 1511
Phone Number: (202) 225-2435
Facebook: @Rep.Grijalva
Instagram:
Twitter: @RepRaulGrijalva
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