Learn more about Second Lady Karen Pence here.Something you may have heard once or twice over the past 15 months is that Donald Trump thinks he won the last presidential election. Vice President Mike Pence remains grateful for the grace of God, the love and support of his family, and the blessings of liberty that are every American’s birthright. President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence entered office on January 20, 2017. The American people elected President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence on November 8, 2016. It was Indiana’s success story, Vice President Pence’s record of legislative and executive experience, and his strong family values that prompted President Donald Trump to select Mike Pence as his running mate in July 2016. Despite the record tax cuts and new investments in roads and schools, the state remained fiscally responsible, as the Vice President worked with members of the Indiana General Assembly to pass two honestly balanced budgets that left the state with strong reserves and AAA credit ratings that were the envy of the nation. Under Vice President Pence’s leadership, Indiana, known as “The Crossroads of America,” invested more than $800 million in new money for roads and bridges across the state. He made career and technical education a priority in every high school. Due to his relentless focus on jobs, the state’s unemployment rate fell by half during his four years in office, and at the end of his term, more Hoosiers were working than at any point in the state’s 200-year history.Īs Governor of Indiana, Vice President Pence increased school funding, expanded school choice, and created the first state-funded Pre-K plan in Indiana history.
As Governor, he enacted the largest income tax cut in Indiana history, lowering individual income tax rates, the business personal property tax, and the corporate income tax in order to strengthen the State’s competitive edge and attract new investment and good-paying jobs. He brought the same limited government and low tax philosophy to the Indiana Statehouse. In 2013, Vice President Pence left the nation’s capital when Hoosiers elected him the 50th Governor of Indiana. In this role, the Vice President helped make government smaller and more effective, reduce spending, and return power to state and local governments.
His colleagues quickly recognized his leadership ability and unanimously elected him to serve as Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee and House Republican Conference Chairman. On Capitol Hill he established himself as a champion of limited government, fiscal responsibility, economic development, educational opportunity, and the U.S. The people of East-Central Indiana elected Vice President Pence six times to represent them in Congress. In 2000, he launched a successful bid for his local congressional seat, entering the United States House of Representatives at the age of 40. Growing up in Indiana, surrounded by good, hardworking Hoosiers, Vice President Pence always knew that he needed to give back to the state and the country that had given him so much. Along the way he became the proud father to three children, Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey. He later attended Indiana University School of Law and met the love of his life, Second Lady Karen Pence.Īfter graduating, Vice President Pence practiced law, led the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, and began hosting The Mike Pence Show, a syndicated talk radio show and a weekly television public affairs program in Indiana.
While there, he renewed his Christian faith which remains the driving force in his life. Vice President Pence set off for Hanover College, earning his bachelor’s degree in history in 1981. Sitting at the feet of his mother and his father, who started a successful convenience store business in their small Indiana town, he was raised to believe in the importance of hard work, faith, and family. The future Vice President watched his Mom and Dad build everything that matters-a family, a business, and a good name. After his grandfather immigrated to the United States when he was 17, his family settled in the Midwest. As a young boy he had a front row seat to the American Dream. Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana, on June 7, 1959, one of six children born to Edward and Nancy Pence. Pence is the 48th Vice President of the United States.
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