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The current governor is Republican Mike DeWine, who took office on January 14, 2019. Qualifications. The governor's working office is in the Vern Riffe State Office Tower in downtown Columbus. To become governor of Ohio, a candidate must be a qualified elector in the state.
Richard Michael DeWine ( / dəˈwaɪn /; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 70th governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 50th Attorney General of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991, and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007.
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- Mayor of Cleveland, 1980–1989
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Voinovich was born in Cleveland, the son of Josephine (Bernot) and George S. Voinovich. He was the oldest of six children. His father was of Serbian descent (from Kordun, present-day Croatia), and his mother was of Slovenianancestry. Voinovich grew up in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland and graduated from Collinwood High School in 1954. He ...
Voinovich began his political career in 1963 as an Assistant Attorney General of Ohio. He then served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1967 until 1971. From 1971 until 1976, he served as County Auditor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In 1971, he made an unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination for mayor of Cleveland against Ral...
1979 Cleveland mayoral election
By 1979, elections in Cleveland had become nonpartisan, and with then-Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich(D) about to enter a tough reelection campaign, Voinovich began to consider running for mayor again. Finally, on July 26, he entered the race, calling the decision "one of the most difficult in [his] life". He remained lieutenant governor until he won the election. Aside from Kucinich, Voinovich's opponents in the race included State Senator Charles Butts and city council majority leader Basil Russo....
"The Comeback City"
Voinovich was considered shy and a rather low-key politician, a description he adopted himself. Once elected, he met with Ohio Governor James Rhodes to solicit the state government's help in clearing up the city's debts. Voinovich negotiated a debt repayment schedule and in October 1980, with the state serving as guarantor, eight local banks lent Cleveland $36.2 million, allowing the city to emerge from default. Still, the city's economy continued to decline, and federal funding was cut. Two...
Downtown development and other improvements
In order to allow them to accomplish more, Voinovich felt that the terms for mayor and members of the Cleveland City Council ought to be extended. He offered a referendum to voters to extend them from two to four years and also asked voters to approve cutting the number of council members from 33 to 21 to help ease the city's strained economy. Both proposals passed.[citation needed] During the Voinovich years neighborhoods began to see some improvement, starting with the Lexington Village hou...
In 1990, Voinovich was nominated by the Republicans to replace Governor Richard F. Celeste, a Democrat who was barred from running for a third consecutive term. Voinovich defeated the Democratic nominee, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr. During his first four years he pulled Ohio out of a $1.5 billion deficit and led efforts to reform welfare and eliminat...
Overview
In the Senate, Voinovich opposed lowering tax rates. He frequently joined Democrats on tax issues and in 2000 was the only Republican in Congress to vote against a bill providing for relief from the "marriage penalty".[citation needed] In November 2004, in his bid for reelection, Voinovich defeated the Democratic nominee, Ohio state senator and former U.S. Representative Eric D. Fingerhut. With 64% of the vote, Voinovich won all 88 Ohio counties and the most votes ever in a U.S. Senate race i...
Fiscal responsibility
As the Senate's leading debt hawk, Voinovich introduced the Securing America's Future Economy (SAFE) Commission Act in every Congress in which he served. The measure proposed the establishment of a national commission to examine the nation's tax and entitlement systems and present long-term solutions to place the United States on a fiscally sustainable course and ensure the solvency of entitlement programs for future generations. In January 2010, Voinovich met with President Obamato discuss t...
National security
Called "the Senate's leading Balkan expert" and a "leader in the fight against anti-Semitism and hate crime against all groups," Voinovich was a key voice on the Foreign Relations Committee about the OSCE and the relationship between the United States and countries in Eastern Europein particular. He played a leadership role in strengthening and enlarging the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) and was the only member of Congress in the room at the 2002 NATO summit in Prague, where member...
After retiring in January 2011, Voinovich was named a Senior Fellow at Cleveland State University at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, and Ohio Visiting Professor of Leadership and Public Affairs at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. In 1998, Ohio University renamed the Institute of ...
Sources
1. Van Tassel, David D (1996). John J. Grabowski (ed.). The Encyclopedia Of Cleveland History–2nd edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253330567. 2. Miller, Carol Poh; Wheeler, Robert Anthony (2009). Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796–1996–2nd edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253211477. 3. Swanstrom, Todd (1988). The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism. Philadelphia: Temple Universi...
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The Governor of the state of Ohio is the head of the executive branch of Ohio's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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Jun 26, 2024 · (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine joined central Ohio mental health and community leaders at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate the opening of a new residential facility in Columbus known as Melissa’s House.
