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Michael Richard Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013. Born and raised in Columbus, Indiana, Pence graduated from Hanover College and then from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law before entering private practice. He lost two House bids in 1988 and 1990 and was a conservative radio and television talk show host from 1994 to 1999. After being elected to the House in 2000, Pence represented Indiana's 2nd district from 2001 to 2003 and 6th district from 2003 to 2013. He chaired the Republican Study Committee from 2005 to 2007 and House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2011. He was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. As governor, Pence initiated the largest tax cut in Indiana's history and pushed for more funding for private education initiatives. He signed bills intended to restrict abortions, including one that prohibited abortions if the reason for the procedure was the fetus's race, gender, or disability, and required funerary services for terminated fetuses, including those resulting from miscarriage; this law was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge and prevented from going into effect. After Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he encountered resistance from moderate members of his party, the business community, and LGBT advocates. The backlash against the bill led Pence to approve changes to the law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and other criteria. He later became the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who went on to win the 2016 presidential election. As vice president, Pence chaired the National Space Council following its reestablishment in 2017 and the White House Coronavirus Task Force, which was established in early 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pence and Trump lost their bid for re-election in the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, although Trump's campaign refused to concede, made false or unproven allegations of election fraud and filed many unsuccessful lawsuits in multiple states. Despite Trump's urging to overturn the election results and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Pence oversaw the certification of Biden–Harris as the winner of the election. He has since distanced himself from Trump, endorsing candidates in primary elections in opposition to those supported by Trump and criticizing the latter's conduct on the day of the attack. In June 2023, he launched a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but withdrew by the end of October. He chose not to endorse Trump for the general election. Early life and education Pence was born on June 7, 1959, in Columbus, Indiana, one of six children of Ann Jane "Nancy" Cawley and Edward Joseph Pence Jr., who ran a group of gas stations. His father served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and received the Bronze Star in 1953, which Pence displays in his office along with its commendation letter and a reception photograph. His father was of German and Irish descent and his mother is of Irish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Edward Joseph Pence Sr., worked in the Chicago stockyards. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Richard Michael Cawley, who emigrated from Doocastle, County Mayo, Ireland, to the United States through Ellis Island and who became a bus driver in Chicago, Illinois. His maternal grandmother's parents were from Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland. Pence graduated from Columbus North High School in 1977. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Hanover College in 1981, and a Juris Doctor from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis in Indianapolis in 1986. While at Hanover, he joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, where he became the chapter president. After graduating from Hanover, he was an admissions counselor at the college from 1981 to 1983. During his time at Hanover, Pence was a friend of future actor Woody Harrelson, whom he helped prepare to deliver a sermon as part of Harrelson's ministry studies. Harrelson later told late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that he "'quite liked [Pence]' at the time". In his childhood and early adulthood, Pence was a Roman Catholic and a Democrat, as was the rest of his family. He volunteered for the Bartholomew County Democratic Party in 1976 and voted for Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election, and has said he was originally inspired to get involved in politics by people such as John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. While in college, Pence left the Catholic Church and became an evangelical, born-again Christian, to the disappointment of his mother. His political views also started shifting to the right during this time in his life, something which Pence attributes to the "common-sense conservatism of Ronald Reagan" with which he began to identify. Early career and congressional campaigns After graduating from law school in 1986, Pence was an attorney in private practice. In 1988, Pence ran for Congress against Democratic incumbent Philip Sharp, but lost. He ran against Sharp again in 1990, quitting his job in order to work full-time in the campaign, but once again was unsuccessful. During the race, Pence used "political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife". While the spending was not illegal at the time, it reportedly undermined his campaign. During the 1990 campaign, Pence ran a television advertisement in which an actor, dressed in a robe and headdress and speaking in a thick Middle Eastern accent, thanked his opponent, Sharp, for doing nothing to wean the United States off imported oil as chairman of a House subcommittee on energy and power. In response to criticism, Pence's campaign responded that the advertisement was not about Arabs; rather, it concerned Sharp's lack of leadership. In 1991, Pence wrote an essay, "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner", published in the Indiana Policy Review, in which he apologized for running negative ads against Sharp. Pence vowed to refrain from using insulting speech or running ads that belittle his adversaries. Also taking place in 1991, he became the president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, a self-described free-market think tank and a member of the State Policy Network, a position he held until 1993. Shortly after his first congressional campaign in 1988, radio station WRCR-FM in Rushville, Indiana, hired Pence to host a weekly half-hour radio show, Washington Update with Mike Pence. In 1992, Pence began hosting a daily talk show on WRCR, The Mik.... Discover the Mike Pence popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mike Pence books.
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The January 6th Report
Darren Beattie & Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US CapitolThe most important political investigation since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. The full repo...
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War by Other Means
Keith KelloggGeneral Keith Kellogg saw it all. The only national security advisor to work side by side with both President Trump and Vice President Pence, he was their confidant as they made th...
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Fever Swamp
Richard North PattersonBy fall 2015, the rise of Donald Trump as the likely Republican nominee confirmed that, for better or worse, Americans had been transported to a strange new land populated by myste...
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Wicked Game
Rick GatesAs featured in The Washington Post and Bloomberg!In a factual firsthand account of this turbulent period in our nation’s history, Donald Trump’s 2016 deputy campaign...
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Life Is Winning
Marjorie DannenfelserLIFE IS WINNING IN AMERICA! THE END OF ABORTION IS WITHIN REACH!“America is standing for life again. There has never been a more urgent moment for each and every American who cares...
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Mike Pence Biography
Emily WhitemanDo You Really Know the Man Behind Trump's Presidency?Mike Pence has long been a polarizing figure in American politics. As Donald Trump's loyal yet enigmatic secondincommand, his s...
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The Hill to Die On
Jake Sherman & Anna PalmerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inside story of Donald Trump’s first two years in Washington as viewed from Capitol Hill, a startling account that turns “Congress into a G...
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Mike R. Pence
John O. A.Born on June 7, 1959, Michael Richard Pence is an American politician who led Donald Trump as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. He is a Republican who...
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Struggling for One America
Daphne Barak & Erbil GunastiWhat happens when you speak with Hollywood stars and entertainershalf proTrump and half againstposting the question, “Can we talk?” Since the 2016 presidential campaigns, Conservat...
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The Best People
Alexander NazaryanAn engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in ...
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Summary of So Help Me God by Mike Pence
Willie M. JosephDISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of So Help Me God by Mike PenceIN THIS SU...
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The Shadow President
Michael D'Antonio & Peter Eisner"It presents an entirely damning portrait of Pence. You've seen his colors before, but not so vividly and in this detail." Frank Bruni, The New York Times "Producing a biography o...
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The Troublemaker
Mark L. CliffordThe astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kong’s leading activists for democracy and is today China’s most famous political prisoner.Jim...
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Conscience of a Conservative
Jeff FlakeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”David Brooks, in his New York...
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Diskutiere nicht mit Zombies I
Heinz DuthelDiskutiere nicht mit Zombies I Politiker und Wirtschaft. Corona Pandemie Weltwirtschaftskrise Aktienmärkte Crash Donald Trump Weltwirtschaft China Taiwan, Hongkong, Vietnam Ira...
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Hold the Line
Michael Fanone & John ShiffmanFrom a twentyyear police veteran and former Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th, this instant New York Times bestseller is also an urgen...
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Mike Pence
Alfred Stephen KanuThe title of this book Mike Pence: Equally Yoked by Grace will give readers a brief background autobiography of the current vice president of the United States of America, Mike Pen...
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Thank You for Your Servitude
Mark LeibovichThe #1 New York Times Bestseller“He’s one of the best chroniclers of politics today.” –Jake Tapper “This is a really funny book.” –Kara Swisher “His writing is so damn good.” –John...
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The January 6th Report
Elizabeth Holtzman & Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US CapitolThe most important political investigation since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. The full repo...
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The Myth Gap
Alex EvansWhy, with absolutely no idea what Brexit actually meant, did the UK vote for Brexit?Why, rather than vote for the bestqualified candidate ever to stand as US President, did voters...
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How to Beat Trump
Mark Halperin"Sacrifices must be made, not just for the party, but for history" MORE THAN 100 MILLION ANXIOUS AMERICANS WANT TO KNOW: HOW CAN DONALD TRUMP BE BEATEN IN 2020 AND EVICTED FR...
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Where You Go
Charlotte Pence & Vice President Mike PenceA stirring portrait of Vice President Mike Pence from his own daughter: the story of a Christian husband and father who answers the call to serve America with his family by his sid...
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Great Again
Donald J. TrumpIn this book (previously published as Crippled America), we’re going to look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has neve...
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The Second Impeachment Report
Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary & Michael CohenWith a foreword by New York Times bestselling author and former confidante of Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, the official report of materials supporting the firstever se...
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Good Decisions for Strange Situations
Sheheryar BanuriGood decisions are hard to make agreed? Whether it's deciding what kind of takeaway to order, what brand of shampoo to buy, or what to do in a crisis, we've all been in situations...
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The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela
Dan Kovalik & Oliver StoneAn indepth look at the US threat to "save" Venezuela Since 1999 when Hugo Chavez became the elected president of Venezuela, the US has been conniving to overthrow his government an...
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The Politics of Prudence
Russell Kirk & Michael P. Federici30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Michael Federici.Conservatives are guided by prudence. So taught Russell Kirk (1918–1994), one of the founding fathers of Americ...