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John Hickenlooper

May 06, 2023

John Wright Hickenlooper Jr.[1] (/ˈhɪkənluːpər/; born February 7, 1952) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019 and as the 43rd mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011. He was a geologist and businessman before entering politics.

John Hickenlooper
Official portrait, 2021
United States Senator
from Colorado
Assumed office
January 3, 2021
Serving with Michael Bennet
Preceded byCory Gardner
42nd Governor of Colorado
In office
January 11, 2011 – January 8, 2019
LieutenantJoe García
Donna Lynne
Preceded byBill Ritter
Succeeded byJared Polis
Chair of the National Governors Association
In office
July 13, 2014 – July 25, 2015
DeputyGary Herbert
Preceded byMary Fallin
Succeeded byGary Herbert
43rd Mayor of Denver
In office
July 21, 2003 – January 11, 2011
Preceded byWellington Webb
Succeeded byBill Vidal
Personal details
Born
John Wright Hickenlooper Jr.

(1952-02-07) February 7, 1952 (age 71)
Narberth, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2002; div. 2015)​

Robin Hickenlooper
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(m. 2016)​
Children2
RelativesAndrew Hickenlooper (great-grandfather)
Smith Hickenlooper (paternal grandfather)
Bourke B. Hickenlooper (great-uncle)
George Hickenlooper (cousin)
EducationWesleyan University (BA, MS)
WebsiteSenate website
John Hickenlooper's voice
John Hickenlooper on the Club Q Nightclub shooting
Recorded November 30, 2022

Born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, Hickenlooper is a graduate of Wesleyan University. After a career as a petroleum geologist, in 1988 he co-founded the Wynkoop Brewing Company, one of the first brewpubs in the U.S. Hickenlooper was elected the 43rd mayor of Denver in 2003, serving two terms. In 2005, TIME named him one of America's five best big-city mayors. After incumbent governor Bill Ritter said that he would not seek reelection, Hickenlooper announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination in January 2010. He won an uncontested primary and faced Constitution Party nominee Tom Tancredo and Republican Party nominee Dan Maes in the general election. Hickenlooper won with 51% of the vote and was reelected in 2014, defeating Republican Bob Beauprez.

As governor, he introduced universal background checks and banned high-capacity magazines in the wake of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting. He expanded Medicaid under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, halving the rate of uninsured people in the state. Having initially opposed marijuana legalization, he has gradually come to support it.

He sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 2019 but dropped out before primaries were held. He subsequently ran for the U.S. Senate, winning the Democratic nomination and the general election, defeating incumbent Republican Cory Gardner.[2] At 68, Hickenlooper became the oldest first-term senator to represent Colorado and the only Quaker member of Congress.[3]

Early life, education, and career

Hickenlooper was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, a middle-class area of the suburban Main Line of Philadelphia.[4] He is the son of Anne Doughten (née Morris) Kennedy and John Wright Hickenlooper.[5][6][7][8] His great-grandfather Andrew Hickenlooper was a Union general, and his grandfather Smith Hickenlooper was a United States federal judge.[9][10]

Hickenlooper was raised by his mother from a young age after his father's death. He is a 1970 graduate of The Haverford School, an independent boys school in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he was a National Merit Semifinalist. New York magazine reported that at this time his heroes were Neil Young, Ray Davies, and Gordie Howe, and that his pet peeves were violence and "beer boys."[11]

Hickenlooper attended Wesleyan University, where he received a B.A. in English in 1974 and a master's degree in geology in 1980.[12][13] He recounted first smoking pot when he was 16 and using lithium carbonate capsules to go through with his final exam.[14]

Hickenlooper worked as a geologist in Colorado for Buckhorn Petroleum in the early 1980s. When Buckhorn was sold, Hickenlooper was laid off in 1986.[15] 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 nation's first brewpubs. By 1996, Westword reported that Denver had more brewpubs per capita than any other city.[16] Hickenlooper claims his restaurant was the first in Colorado to offer a designated driver program.[17]

In 1989, Hickenlooper was arrested in Denver for "driving while impaired" and did community service.[14][17]

Mayor of Denver

In 2003, Hickenlooper ran for mayor of Denver.[18] Campaigning on his business experience, he developed a series of creative television ads that separated him from the rest of the crowded field, including one in which he addressed unhappiness over a recent increase in parking rates by walking the streets to "feed" meters.[18] He won the election and in July 2003 he took office as the 43rd mayor of Denver.[19] TIME Magazine named him one of America's five best big-city mayors in 2005.[20]

On taking office, Hickenlooper inherited a "$70 million budget deficit, the worst in city history", which he was able to eliminate in his first term "without major service cuts or layoffs", according to Time.[20][21] He won bipartisan support for a multibillion dollar mass public transit project, intended in part to attract investment and funded by a voter-approved sales tax increase.[22][21][23]

In 2003, Hickenlooper announced a ten-year plan to end homelessness in Denver, citing it as one of the issues that prompted him to run for mayor.[24][25][26] 280 U.S. cities announced similar plans. The effort did not end homelessness in Denver, and in 2015 Denver's city auditor "released a scathing audit faulting the plan's implementation."[27] The head of the agency responsible defended the program, saying it was "still housing 300-400 people a month in varying ways", while Hickenlooper argued that the point of such an ambitious target was to focus attention and resources on the problem.[27] In his governor's budget request for 2017–18, he asked lawmakers to allocate $12.3 million from taxes on marijuana to building homes for chronically homeless people.[25][24]

Hickenlooper established the Denver Scholarship Foundation, providing needs-based college scholarships to high school graduates.[28]

In May 2007, Hickenlooper was reelected with 88% of the vote.[29] He resigned as mayor just before his inauguration as governor.

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 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, a private nonprofit organization, to get untaxed fuel from Denver city-owned pumps, saving them $0.404 per US gallon ($0.107/l).[30] Once the arrangement came to light, the host committee agreed to pay taxes on the fuel already consumed and on all future fuel purchases.[31] 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.[32]

Governor of Colorado

 
Hickenlooper in February 2012

Elections

2010

Main article: 2010 Colorado gubernatorial election

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 announced on February 6, 2006, that he would not run for governor. Later, he supported Democratic candidate Bill Ritter, Denver's former district attorney, who was subsequently elected.[33]

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.[34] He said that if Salazar mounted a bid for governor, he would likely not challenge him in a Democratic primary.[35] On January 7, 2010, Salazar confirmed that he would not run for governor in 2010 and endorsed Hickenlooper.[36] On January 12, 2010, media outlets reported that Hickenlooper would begin a campaign for governor.[37] On August 5, 2010, he selected CSU-Pueblo president Joseph A. Garcia as his running mate.[38] 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.[39]

2014

Main article: 2014 Colorado gubernatorial election

Hickenlooper won a tightly contested gubernatorial election with a plurality of 49.0% of the vote against Republican businessman Bob Beauprez.[40]

Tenure

On January 11, 2011, Hickenlooper was sworn in as the 42nd governor of Colorado after winning by 15 points. He was the second Denver mayor ever elected governor. His victory was a landslide despite Democrats' poor results overall in the 2010 elections. Republicans flipped twelve governorships nationwide in 2010.[5] NPR described Hickenlooper as having a "pro-business centrist profile" and as "known to try to build consensus and compromise on tough issues",[41] while 5280 called him as "one of those unicorn-rare, truly apolitical politicians", noting support from business leaders and some Republicans.[5][21]

On December 4, 2012, Hickenlooper was elected to serve as vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.[42]

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 Hickenlooper as vice president.[43]

Constitutionally limited to two consecutive terms,[44] Hickenlooper could not run for governor in 2018.

On June 5, 2020, the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission fined Hickenlooper $2,750 for twice violating Colorado's gift ban as governor.[45][46] Hickenlooper received a flight on a private jet owned by homebuilder and donor Larry Mizel, the founder of MDC Holdings.[47] He also received private security and a ride to the airport in a Maserati limousine on a trip to the Bilderberg Meetings in Italy.[48] The state spent an estimated $127,000 in attorney's fees investigating the violation.[46]

U.S. Senate

Elections

2020

Main article: 2020 United States Senate election in Colorado

Hickenlooper had previously been considered the front-runner to fill the United States Senate seat to be vacated by Ken Salazar upon his confirmation as Secretary of the Interior in the Obama administration.[49] He confirmed his interest in the seat.[50] But on January 3, 2009, Governor Bill Ritter appointed Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to the position.[51] Bennet previously served as Hickenlooper's chief of staff.

In a YouTube video published to his campaign channel on August 22, 2019, Hickenlooper announced that he would run for the United States Senate in 2020.[52] Some preliminary polling data showed him with a substantial lead against incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Cory Gardner.[53] Hickenlooper was also leading the Democratic primary field by a fairly wide margin before he announced.[54] He was quickly endorsed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a move protested by candidates already running before Hickenlooper's entry.[55]

On June 30, Hickenlooper defeated former state house Speaker Andrew Romanoff in the Democratic primary,[56] winning the nomination to challenge one-term incumbent Republican Cory Gardner.[57] He defeated Gardner by 9 points[58] and took office on January 3, 2021.

Tenure

In the wake of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Hickenlooper said he would support efforts to remove Donald Trump from office, in line with most of his party.[59]

Committee assignments

2020 presidential campaign

Main article: Endorsements in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries § John Hickenlooper
Hickenlooper 2020
 
Campaign2020 United States presidential election (Democratic Party primaries)
CandidateJohn Hickenlooper
Governor of Colorado (2011–2019)
Mayor of Denver (2003–2011)
AffiliationDemocratic Party
StatusSuspended
AnnouncedMarch 4, 2019
LaunchedMarch 7, 2019
SuspendedAugust 15, 2019
HeadquartersDenver, Colorado
Key peopleBrad Komar (campaign manager)[60]
ReceiptsUS$3,508,447.82[61] (9/30/2019)
SloganStand Tall
Website
www.hickenlooper.com
 
Hickenlooper speaking to the California Democratic Party State Convention in June 2019.

On March 4, 2019, Hickenlooper announced his campaign to seek the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020.[62][63][64] His candidacy had been a matter of media speculation for months before his announcement.[65][66] Hickenlooper formally launched his campaign on March 7, 2019, in Denver, Colorado.[67] A video titled "Stand Tall" was released to announce the campaign and outline his reasons for running.[64] Hickenlooper formed Giddy Up PAC in 2018 in anticipation of a presidential campaign, raising more than $600,000 in the midterm cycle.[68] The campaign struggled to gain traction in the crowded and increasingly competitive Democratic presidential primary field, and Hickenlooper ended his candidacy in a YouTube video on August 15, 2019.[69][70][71]

Political positions

 
Hickenlooper during the World Economic Forum 2013

Capital punishment

In 2013, a campaign sought clemency for Nathan Dunlap, a black man facing execution for the 1993 murder of four people, with three former jurors saying they would not have voted for the death penalty had they known of his undiagnosed mental illness, while the mother of a victim, a former co-worker of Dunlap, and the Arapahoe County District Attorney urged Hickenlooper to let the execution take place.[72][73] Hickenlooper granted Dunlap a reprieve, reversible by a future governor, citing inequity in the legal system and the evidence against capital punishment's effectiveness as a deterrent, saying, "It is a legitimate question whether we as a state should be taking lives".[72][74]

In Hickenlooper's 2016 memoir, he came out against the death penalty, saying his views had changed after he became more familiar with the research showing bias against minorities and people with mental illnesses.[75]

Disaster recovery

In May 2014, Hickenlooper signed five bills related to disaster relief in the wake of flooding and wildfires. The bills funded grants to remove flood debris from watersheds and to repair flood-damaged schools and damaged wastewater and drinking water systems. They also exempted people who lost homes from having to pay property taxes and out-of-state disaster workers from having to pay Colorado state income tax.[76]

Drug policy

In 2005, Denver voted to legalize possession of small amounts of cannabis, becoming the first major U.S. city to do so.[77] Hickenlooper opposed the initiative as mayor, calling marijuana a gateway drug and saying that the initiative would not prevent enforcement of state law prohibiting cannabis.[77] As governor in 2012, he opposed Amendment 64, which made Colorado the first state along with Washington to allow the sale and recreational use of cannabis. Hickenlooper said the initiative "sends the wrong message to kids that drugs are OK" and that "federal authorities have been clear they will not turn a blind eye toward states attempting to trump those laws".[78] Despite his opposition, he worked with the state legislature to implement the initiative after it passed, and a federal crackdown on sale of the drug never materialized.[79]

As Colorado's new laws were implemented and the results became clearer, Hickenlooper's views evolved.[80] In 2016, he said that Colorado's approach to cannabis legalization was "beginning to look like it might work".[81] In 2019, he said that "the things that I feared six years ago have not come to pass"[82] and that he would be happy to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level if he became president.[83] He also said that the federal government should not stop states from decriminalizing illicit drugs beyond marijuana, as well as allowing for safe, supervised injection sites.[84] In 2022 he introduced the PREPARE Act, to direct the attorney general to develop a regulatory framework for cannabis similar to alcohol, in preparation for federal legalization of the drug.[85][86]

Economic policy

In March 2014, Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1241, which funded the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI).[87]

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.[88] 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.[89]

Hickenlooper calls himself "a fiscal conservative." He has said, "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," and "I think what a lot of Americans want is better government, not bigger government."[21]

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.[90] The rules were later used as blueprints for California, Canada, and the federal government's own new rules.[91]

After Trump announced that the United States would leave the Paris Climate Accord, Hickenlooper joined more than a dozen other states in retaining the accord's greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.[92]

NPR has called Hickenlooper a "strong supporter of Colorado's oil and gas industry".[41] Unlike most Democrats, he supports hydraulic fracking, a controversial oil and natural gas extraction process.[93] Before politics, Hickenlooper was a geologist. He believes fracking is a beneficial practice with minimal environmental harm, even testifying in a 2013 hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that he had drunk a glass of fracking fluid produced by Halliburton.[24][94]

In February 2021, Hickenlooper was one of seven Democratic U.S. senators to join Republicans in blocking a ban of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking.[95]

Gun policy

Exactly eight months after the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, Hickenlooper signed bills into law requiring universal background checks on all gun transfers in Colorado except gifts between immediate family members, and banning magazines with more than 15 rounds.[96][97] Although most Coloradans supported the measures, according to polling by the Denver Post,[96] the bills' opponents gathered enough signatures to trigger special elections leading to the ousting of Democratic state senators John Morse and Angela Giron and the resignation of Evie Hudak.[98]

Hickenlooper was a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns until 2011.[99] In 2018, he 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 deemed a significant risk to themselves or others.[100] The GOP-controlled State Senate never let the bill out of committee that legislative session.[101]

 
Hickenlooper in 2015

Healthcare and abortion

Hickenlooper expanded Medicaid and established Colorado's health insurance marketplace, Connect for Health Colorado, through the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The state's uninsured rate dropped from 14.3% in 2013 to 6.5% in 2017. Approximately 350,000 Coloradans, about a quarter of whom are undocumented immigrants and thus ineligible for public insurance, remained without insurance coverage. The price of health insurance coverage continued to rise in Colorado, which has some of the highest premiums in the nation.[102]

Hickenlooper is pro-choice on abortion rights. After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, he said the decision "threatens not just a woman’s physical health & control over her own future, but it also threatens to put women & their doctors in jail", and that "Republicans should join Democrats today and vote to keep politics out of reproductive health care decisions."[103]

Immigration

As governor, Hickenlooper signed legislation granting in-state tuition to Dreamers (DACA) and joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from ending DACA.[104] During his 2019 campaign for President, Hickenlooper described the Trump administration family separation policy as ″kidnapping″ and said it would be ″crazy″ to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants.[105]

Hickenlooper voted against providing economic support to undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic on February 4, 2021.[106][107]

Sex work

In March 2019, Hickenlooper said he supported legalizing sex work and regulating "where there are norms and protections".[84][108]

Tech issues and cryptocurrency

During his 2020 presidential campaign, Hickenlooper voiced concern about potential monopolistic activity in the tech sector, and identified Amazon and Google as potentially hindering competition. His platform called for revamping the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 to clamp down on anti-competitive behavior.[109]

As governor, Hickenlooper set up a Council for the Advancement of Blockchain Technology to coordinate Colorado's approach to blockchain policy.[110]

Personal life

 
Hickenlooper with his wife Robin at the Inauguration of Joe Biden

Marriages

Hickenlooper's 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. Before they separated, they lived in Denver's Park Hill neighborhood with their son, Teddy.[111] Upon taking office as governor, Hickenlooper and his family decided to maintain their private residence instead of moving to the Colorado Governor's Mansion.[112] On July 31, 2012, Hickenlooper announced that he and Thorpe were divorcing after 10 years of marriage.[113] After the divorce, Hickenlooper moved into the Governor's Mansion. Hickenlooper married Robin Pringle on January 16, 2016.[114] Pringle and Hickenlooper welcomed a baby boy via surrogate in December 2022.[115]

Family background

Hickenlooper is of partial Dutch descent.[116] His mother's family were practicing Quakers. He spent a summer in his teens volunteering with the American Friends Service Committee in Robbinston, Maine, helping establish a volunteer-run free school.[117] In 2010, Hickenlooper told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he and Thorpe attended Quaker meetings and tried to live by Quaker values.[118] In a 2018 speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Hickenlooper said "I'm not a Quaker", but spoke about the role of Quaker teaching in his approach to government.[119]

A cousin, George Hickenlooper (1963–2010) was an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker.[120] He is the great-grandson of Civil War Brivet Brigadier General Andrew Hickenlooper and the grandson of federal judge Smith Hickenlooper. Other relatives include pianist Olga Samaroff (née Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper), the first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski, and great-uncle Bourke Hickenlooper, who served as governor of Iowa and a U.S. senator from Iowa.[121][122]

Writer 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."[21] In his 2016 memoir, Hickenlooper mentioned that he watched the 1972 pornographic movie Deep Throat with his mother alongside one of his friends.[14][123] He later recounted the event during his 2020 presidential campaign.[123]

Hickenlooper is an avid squash player and continues to compete as a ranked player in national tournaments.[124] As of 2019, Hickenlooper's net worth was more than $8 million.[125][126]

Health

Hickenlooper lives with prosopagnosia, commonly known as "face blindness".[127]

In popular culture

  • Hickenlooper appears in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Timequake.[128] The author had been college friends with Hickenlooper's father.
  • For a 2004 roast of the then-mayor of Denver, Vonnegut declared in a joke video that he was Hickenlooper's real father.[129]
  • In November 2012, Esquire interviewed Hickenlooper as one of the "Americans of the Year 2012".[130]
  • Hickenlooper made a cameo appearance in his cousin George Hickenlooper's 2010 film Casino Jack.[131][132]

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of John Hickenlooper

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Further reading

  • Hickenlooper, John; Potter, Maximillian (2016). The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9781101981672. OCLC 929055877.

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john, hickenlooper, john, wright, hickenlooper, born, february, 1952, american, politician, serving, junior, united, states, senator, from, colorado, since, 2021, member, democratic, party, served, 42nd, governor, colorado, from, 2011, 2019, 43rd, mayor, denve. John Wright Hickenlooper Jr 1 ˈ h ɪ k en l uː p er born February 7 1952 is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021 A member of the Democratic Party he served as the 42nd governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019 and as the 43rd mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011 He was a geologist and businessman before entering politics John HickenlooperOfficial portrait 2021United States Senatorfrom ColoradoIncumbentAssumed office January 3 2021Serving with Michael BennetPreceded byCory Gardner42nd Governor of ColoradoIn office January 11 2011 January 8 2019LieutenantJoe GarciaDonna LynnePreceded byBill RitterSucceeded byJared PolisChair of the National Governors AssociationIn office July 13 2014 July 25 2015DeputyGary HerbertPreceded byMary FallinSucceeded byGary Herbert43rd Mayor of DenverIn office July 21 2003 January 11 2011Preceded byWellington WebbSucceeded byBill VidalPersonal detailsBornJohn Wright Hickenlooper Jr 1952 02 07 February 7 1952 age 71 Narberth Pennsylvania U S Political partyDemocraticSpouse s Helen Thorpe m 2002 div 2015 wbr Robin Hickenlooper m 2016 wbr Children2RelativesAndrew Hickenlooper great grandfather Smith Hickenlooper paternal grandfather Bourke B Hickenlooper great uncle George Hickenlooper cousin EducationWesleyan University BA MS WebsiteSenate websiteJohn Hickenlooper s voice source source John Hickenlooper on the Club Q Nightclub shootingRecorded November 30 2022Born in Narberth Pennsylvania Hickenlooper is a graduate of Wesleyan University After a career as a petroleum geologist in 1988 he co founded the Wynkoop Brewing Company one of the first brewpubs in the U S Hickenlooper was elected the 43rd mayor of Denver in 2003 serving two terms In 2005 TIME named him one of America s five best big city mayors After incumbent governor Bill Ritter said that he would not seek reelection Hickenlooper announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination in January 2010 He won an uncontested primary and faced Constitution Party nominee Tom Tancredo and Republican Party nominee Dan Maes in the general election Hickenlooper won with 51 of the vote and was reelected in 2014 defeating Republican Bob Beauprez As governor he introduced universal background checks and banned high capacity magazines in the wake of the 2012 Aurora Colorado shooting He expanded Medicaid under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act halving the rate of uninsured people in the state Having initially opposed marijuana legalization he has gradually come to support it He sought the Democratic nomination for U S president in 2019 but dropped out before primaries were held He subsequently ran for the U S Senate winning the Democratic nomination and the general election defeating incumbent Republican Cory Gardner 2 At 68 Hickenlooper became the oldest first term senator to represent Colorado and the only Quaker member of Congress 3 Contents 1 Early life education and career 2 Mayor of Denver 2 1 2008 Democratic National Convention 3 Governor of Colorado 3 1 Elections 3 1 1 2010 3 1 2 2014 3 2 Tenure 4 U S Senate 4 1 Elections 4 1 1 2020 4 2 Tenure 4 3 Committee assignments 5 2020 presidential campaign 6 Political positions 6 1 Capital punishment 6 2 Disaster recovery 6 3 Drug policy 6 4 Economic policy 6 5 Energy and environment 6 6 Gun policy 6 7 Healthcare and abortion 6 8 Immigration 6 9 Sex work 6 10 Tech issues and cryptocurrency 7 Personal life 7 1 Marriages 7 2 Family background 7 3 Health 7 4 In popular culture 8 Electoral history 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life education and career EditHickenlooper was born in Narberth Pennsylvania a middle class area of the suburban Main Line of Philadelphia 4 He is the son of Anne Doughten nee Morris Kennedy and John Wright Hickenlooper 5 6 7 8 His great grandfather Andrew Hickenlooper was a Union general and his grandfather Smith Hickenlooper was a United States federal judge 9 10 Hickenlooper was raised by his mother from a young age after his father s death He is a 1970 graduate of The Haverford School an independent boys school in Haverford Pennsylvania where he was a National Merit Semifinalist New York magazine reported that at this time his heroes were Neil Young Ray Davies and Gordie Howe and that his pet peeves were violence and beer boys 11 Hickenlooper attended Wesleyan University where he received a B A in English in 1974 and a master s degree in geology in 1980 12 13 He recounted first smoking pot when he was 16 and using lithium carbonate capsules to go through with his final exam 14 Hickenlooper worked as a geologist in Colorado for Buckhorn Petroleum in the early 1980s When Buckhorn was sold Hickenlooper was laid off in 1986 15 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 nation s first brewpubs By 1996 Westword reported that Denver had more brewpubs per capita than any other city 16 Hickenlooper claims his restaurant was the first in Colorado to offer a designated driver program 17 In 1989 Hickenlooper was arrested in Denver for driving while impaired and did community service 14 17 Mayor of Denver EditIn 2003 Hickenlooper ran for mayor of Denver 18 Campaigning on his business experience he developed a series of creative television ads that separated him from the rest of the crowded field including one in which he addressed unhappiness over a recent increase in parking rates by walking the streets to feed meters 18 He won the election and in July 2003 he took office as the 43rd mayor of Denver 19 TIME Magazine named him one of America s five best big city mayors in 2005 20 On taking office Hickenlooper inherited a 70 million budget deficit the worst in city history which he was able to eliminate in his first term without major service cuts or layoffs according to Time 20 21 He won bipartisan support for a multibillion dollar mass public transit project intended in part to attract investment and funded by a voter approved sales tax increase 22 21 23 In 2003 Hickenlooper announced a ten year plan to end homelessness in Denver citing it as one of the issues that prompted him to run for mayor 24 25 26 280 U S cities announced similar plans The effort did not end homelessness in Denver and in 2015 Denver s city auditor released a scathing audit faulting the plan s implementation 27 The head of the agency responsible defended the program saying it was still housing 300 400 people a month in varying ways while Hickenlooper argued that the point of such an ambitious target was to focus attention and resources on the problem 27 In his governor s budget request for 2017 18 he asked lawmakers to allocate 12 3 million from taxes on marijuana to building homes for chronically homeless people 25 24 Hickenlooper established the Denver Scholarship Foundation providing needs based college scholarships to high school graduates 28 In May 2007 Hickenlooper was reelected with 88 of the vote 29 He resigned as mayor just before his inauguration as governor 2008 Democratic National Convention Edit 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 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 a private nonprofit organization to get untaxed fuel from Denver city owned pumps saving them 0 404 per US gallon 0 107 l 30 Once the arrangement came to light the host committee agreed to pay taxes on the fuel already consumed and on all future fuel purchases 31 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 32 Governor of Colorado Edit Hickenlooper in February 2012 Elections Edit 2010 Edit Main article 2010 Colorado gubernatorial election 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 announced on February 6 2006 that he would not run for governor Later he supported Democratic candidate Bill Ritter Denver s former district attorney who was subsequently elected 33 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 34 He said that if Salazar mounted a bid for governor he would likely not challenge him in a Democratic primary 35 On January 7 2010 Salazar confirmed that he would not run for governor in 2010 and endorsed Hickenlooper 36 On January 12 2010 media outlets reported that Hickenlooper would begin a campaign for governor 37 On August 5 2010 he selected CSU Pueblo president Joseph A Garcia as his running mate 38 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 39 2014 Edit Main article 2014 Colorado gubernatorial election Hickenlooper won a tightly contested gubernatorial election with a plurality of 49 0 of the vote against Republican businessman Bob Beauprez 40 Tenure Edit On January 11 2011 Hickenlooper was sworn in as the 42nd governor of Colorado after winning by 15 points He was the second Denver mayor ever elected governor His victory was a landslide despite Democrats poor results overall in the 2010 elections Republicans flipped twelve governorships nationwide in 2010 5 NPR described Hickenlooper as having a pro business centrist profile and as known to try to build consensus and compromise on tough issues 41 while 5280 called him as one of those unicorn rare truly apolitical politicians noting support from business leaders and some Republicans 5 21 On December 4 2012 Hickenlooper was elected to serve as vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association 42 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 Hickenlooper as vice president 43 Constitutionally limited to two consecutive terms 44 Hickenlooper could not run for governor in 2018 On June 5 2020 the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission fined Hickenlooper 2 750 for twice violating Colorado s gift ban as governor 45 46 Hickenlooper received a flight on a private jet owned by homebuilder and donor Larry Mizel the founder of MDC Holdings 47 He also received private security and a ride to the airport in a Maserati limousine on a trip to the Bilderberg Meetings in Italy 48 The state spent an estimated 127 000 in attorney s fees investigating the violation 46 U S Senate EditElections Edit 2020 Edit Main article 2020 United States Senate election in Colorado Hickenlooper had previously been considered the front runner to fill the United States Senate seat to be vacated by Ken Salazar upon his confirmation as Secretary of the Interior in the Obama administration 49 He confirmed his interest in the seat 50 But on January 3 2009 Governor Bill Ritter appointed Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to the position 51 Bennet previously served as Hickenlooper s chief of staff In a YouTube video published to his campaign channel on August 22 2019 Hickenlooper announced that he would run for the United States Senate in 2020 52 Some preliminary polling data showed him with a substantial lead against incumbent Republican U S Senator Cory Gardner 53 Hickenlooper was also leading the Democratic primary field by a fairly wide margin before he announced 54 He was quickly endorsed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee a move protested by candidates already running before Hickenlooper s entry 55 On June 30 Hickenlooper defeated former state house Speaker Andrew Romanoff in the Democratic primary 56 winning the nomination to challenge one term incumbent Republican Cory Gardner 57 He defeated Gardner by 9 points 58 and took office on January 3 2021 Tenure Edit In the wake of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol Hickenlooper said he would support efforts to remove Donald Trump from office in line with most of his party 59 Committee assignments Edit Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy Subcommittee on Public Lands Forests and Mining Subcommittee on Water and Power Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety Chair Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation Safety Operations and Innovation Subcommittee on Communications Media and Broadband Subcommittee on Space and Science Chair Subcommittee on Tourism Trade and Export Promotion Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship2020 presidential campaign EditMain article Endorsements in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries John Hickenlooper Hickenlooper 2020 Campaign2020 United States presidential election Democratic Party primaries CandidateJohn HickenlooperGovernor of Colorado 2011 2019 Mayor of Denver 2003 2011 AffiliationDemocratic PartyStatusSuspendedAnnouncedMarch 4 2019LaunchedMarch 7 2019SuspendedAugust 15 2019HeadquartersDenver ColoradoKey peopleBrad Komar campaign manager 60 ReceiptsUS 3 508 447 82 61 9 30 2019 SloganStand TallWebsitewww wbr hickenlooper wbr com Hickenlooper speaking to the California Democratic Party State Convention in June 2019 On March 4 2019 Hickenlooper announced his campaign to seek the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020 62 63 64 His candidacy had been a matter of media speculation for months before his announcement 65 66 Hickenlooper formally launched his campaign on March 7 2019 in Denver Colorado 67 A video titled Stand Tall was released to announce the campaign and outline his reasons for running 64 Hickenlooper formed Giddy Up PAC in 2018 in anticipation of a presidential campaign raising more than 600 000 in the midterm cycle 68 The campaign struggled to gain traction in the crowded and increasingly competitive Democratic presidential primary field and Hickenlooper ended his candidacy in a YouTube video on August 15 2019 69 70 71 Political positions Edit Hickenlooper during the World Economic Forum 2013 Capital punishment Edit In 2013 a campaign sought clemency for Nathan Dunlap a black man facing execution for the 1993 murder of four people with three former jurors saying they would not have voted for the death penalty had they known of his undiagnosed mental illness while the mother of a victim a former co worker of Dunlap and the Arapahoe County District Attorney urged Hickenlooper to let the execution take place 72 73 Hickenlooper granted Dunlap a reprieve reversible by a future governor citing inequity in the legal system and the evidence against capital punishment s effectiveness as a deterrent saying It is a legitimate question whether we as a state should be taking lives 72 74 In Hickenlooper s 2016 memoir he came out against the death penalty saying his views had changed after he became more familiar with the research showing bias against minorities and people with mental illnesses 75 Disaster recovery Edit In May 2014 Hickenlooper signed five bills related to disaster relief in the wake of flooding and wildfires The bills funded grants to remove flood debris from watersheds and to repair flood damaged schools and damaged wastewater and drinking water systems They also exempted people who lost homes from having to pay property taxes and out of state disaster workers from having to pay Colorado state income tax 76 Drug policy Edit In 2005 Denver voted to legalize possession of small amounts of cannabis becoming the first major U S city to do so 77 Hickenlooper opposed the initiative as mayor calling marijuana a gateway drug and saying that the initiative would not prevent enforcement of state law prohibiting cannabis 77 As governor in 2012 he opposed Amendment 64 which made Colorado the first state along with Washington to allow the sale and recreational use of cannabis Hickenlooper said the initiative sends the wrong message to kids that drugs are OK and that federal authorities have been clear they will not turn a blind eye toward states attempting to trump those laws 78 Despite his opposition he worked with the state legislature to implement the initiative after it passed and a federal crackdown on sale of the drug never materialized 79 As Colorado s new laws were implemented and the results became clearer Hickenlooper s views evolved 80 In 2016 he said that Colorado s approach to cannabis legalization was beginning to look like it might work 81 In 2019 he said that the things that I feared six years ago have not come to pass 82 and that he would be happy to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level if he became president 83 He also said that the federal government should not stop states from decriminalizing illicit drugs beyond marijuana as well as allowing for safe supervised injection sites 84 In 2022 he introduced the PREPARE Act to direct the attorney general to develop a regulatory framework for cannabis similar to alcohol in preparation for federal legalization of the drug 85 86 Economic policy Edit In March 2014 Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1241 which funded the Rural Economic Development Initiative REDI 87 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 88 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 89 Hickenlooper calls himself a fiscal conservative He has said 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 and I think what a lot of Americans want is better government not bigger government 21 Energy and environment Edit 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 90 The rules were later used as blueprints for California Canada and the federal government s own new rules 91 After Trump announced that the United States would leave the Paris Climate Accord Hickenlooper joined more than a dozen other states in retaining the accord s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals 92 NPR has called Hickenlooper a strong supporter of Colorado s oil and gas industry 41 Unlike most Democrats he supports hydraulic fracking a controversial oil and natural gas extraction process 93 Before politics Hickenlooper was a geologist He believes fracking is a beneficial practice with minimal environmental harm even testifying in a 2013 hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that he had drunk a glass of fracking fluid produced by Halliburton 24 94 In February 2021 Hickenlooper was one of seven Democratic U S senators to join Republicans in blocking a ban of hydraulic fracturing commonly known as fracking 95 Gun policy Edit Exactly eight months after the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora Colorado Hickenlooper signed bills into law requiring universal background checks on all gun transfers in Colorado except gifts between immediate family members and banning magazines with more than 15 rounds 96 97 Although most Coloradans supported the measures according to polling by the Denver Post 96 the bills opponents gathered enough signatures to trigger special elections leading to the ousting of Democratic state senators John Morse and Angela Giron and the resignation of Evie Hudak 98 Hickenlooper was a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns until 2011 99 In 2018 he 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 deemed a significant risk to themselves or others 100 The GOP controlled State Senate never let the bill out of committee that legislative session 101 Hickenlooper in 2015 Healthcare and abortion Edit Hickenlooper expanded Medicaid and established Colorado s health insurance marketplace Connect for Health Colorado through the provisions of the Affordable Care Act The state s uninsured rate dropped from 14 3 in 2013 to 6 5 in 2017 Approximately 350 000 Coloradans about a quarter of whom are undocumented immigrants and thus ineligible for public insurance remained without insurance coverage The price of health insurance coverage continued to rise in Colorado which has some of the highest premiums in the nation 102 Hickenlooper is pro choice on abortion rights After Roe v Wade was overturned in June 2022 he said the decision threatens not just a woman s physical health amp control over her own future but it also threatens to put women amp their doctors in jail and that Republicans should join Democrats today and vote to keep politics out of reproductive health care decisions 103 Immigration Edit As governor Hickenlooper signed legislation granting in state tuition to Dreamers DACA and joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from ending DACA 104 During his 2019 campaign for President Hickenlooper described the Trump administration family separation policy as kidnapping and said it would be crazy to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants 105 Hickenlooper voted against providing economic support to undocumented immigrants during the COVID 19 pandemic on February 4 2021 106 107 Sex work Edit In March 2019 Hickenlooper said he supported legalizing sex work and regulating where there are norms and protections 84 108 Tech issues and cryptocurrency Edit During his 2020 presidential campaign Hickenlooper voiced concern about potential monopolistic activity in the tech sector and identified Amazon and Google as potentially hindering competition His platform called for revamping the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 to clamp down on anti competitive behavior 109 As governor Hickenlooper set up a Council for the Advancement of Blockchain Technology to coordinate Colorado s approach to blockchain policy 110 Personal life Edit Hickenlooper with his wife Robin at the Inauguration of Joe Biden Marriages Edit Hickenlooper s 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 Before they separated they lived in Denver s Park Hill neighborhood with their son Teddy 111 Upon taking office as governor Hickenlooper and his family decided to maintain their private residence instead of moving to the Colorado Governor s Mansion 112 On July 31 2012 Hickenlooper announced that he and Thorpe were divorcing after 10 years of marriage 113 After the divorce Hickenlooper moved into the Governor s Mansion Hickenlooper married Robin Pringle on January 16 2016 114 Pringle and Hickenlooper welcomed a baby boy via surrogate in December 2022 115 Family background Edit Hickenlooper is of partial Dutch descent 116 His mother s family were practicing Quakers He spent a summer in his teens volunteering with the American Friends Service Committee in Robbinston Maine helping establish a volunteer run free school 117 In 2010 Hickenlooper told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he and Thorpe attended Quaker meetings and tried to live by Quaker values 118 In a 2018 speech to the Economic Club of Chicago Hickenlooper said I m not a Quaker but spoke about the role of Quaker teaching in his approach to government 119 A cousin George Hickenlooper 1963 2010 was an Emmy winning documentary filmmaker 120 He is the great grandson of Civil War Brivet Brigadier General Andrew Hickenlooper and the grandson of federal judge Smith Hickenlooper Other relatives include pianist Olga Samaroff nee Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper the first wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski and great uncle Bourke Hickenlooper who served as governor of Iowa and a U S senator from Iowa 121 122 Writer 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 21 In his 2016 memoir Hickenlooper mentioned that he watched the 1972 pornographic movie Deep Throat with his mother alongside one of his friends 14 123 He later recounted the event during his 2020 presidential campaign 123 Hickenlooper is an avid squash player and continues to compete as a ranked player in national tournaments 124 As of 2019 Hickenlooper s net worth was more than 8 million 125 126 Health Edit Hickenlooper lives with prosopagnosia commonly known as face blindness 127 In popular culture Edit Hickenlooper appears in Kurt Vonnegut s novel Timequake 128 The author had been college friends with Hickenlooper s father For a 2004 roast of the then mayor of Denver Vonnegut declared in a joke video that he was Hickenlooper s real father 129 In November 2012 Esquire interviewed Hickenlooper as one of the Americans of the Year 2012 130 Hickenlooper made a cameo appearance in his cousin George Hickenlooper s 2010 film Casino Jack 131 132 Electoral history EditMain article Electoral history of John HickenlooperReferences Edit MacDonald Anne Morris The Philadelphia Inquirer April 6 2003 Death notice MACDONALD ANNE MORRIS age 82 of Dunwoody Village Newtown Square PA On April 3 2003 Beloved wife of William M Macdonald loving mother of Elizabeth Kennedy Hollins Sydney Morris Kennedy Deborah Hickenlooper Rohan and John W Hickenlooper Jr also survived by 4 grandchildren sister of Maysie Morris Henrotin Jane Morris Stewart Clark and Helen Morris Blackwood Pramuk Jacob November 3 2020 John Hickenlooper projected to win Colorado Senate race a pickup for Democrats CNBC Luning Ernest December 29 2020 TRAIL MIX Superlatives pile up in record shattering 2020 election Colorado Politics Retrieved December 29 2020 At 68 Hickenlooper is the oldest Coloradan to first win election to the U S Senate Lizza Ryan May 13 2013 The Middleman Colorado s Governor Finds Himself Leading His State to the Left The Political Scene The New Yorker Vol 89 no 13 pp 26 31 Retrieved March 7 2019 a b c Potter Maximillian July 24 2012 The Happy Shrewdness of John W Hickenlooper 5280 Retrieved April 18 2019 Briefing Denver Rocky Mountain News Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group April 4 2003 Retrieved May 15 2016 Mrs Anne Kennedy Engaged The New York Times May 9 1948 Hickenlooper John Potter Maximillian May 24 2016 The Opposite of Woe My Life in Beer and Politics Penguin ISBN 9781101981689 via Google Books Gov Hickenlooper Civil War The Untold Story Archived from the original on May 6 2014 Retrieved July 16 2016 Hickenlooper John Potter Maximillian 2016 The Opposite of Woe My Life in Beer and Politics New York Penguin Press pp 37 112 Meet the Class of 2020 s Overachievers New York April 1 14 2019 p 13 Bedingfield Steve October 13 2010 How Old is John Hickenlooper Politics Daily Archived from the original on October 29 2010 Retrieved September 30 2011 Millward David June 27 2019 Democrats 2020 John Hickenlooper geologist turned brewer with eyes on the White House The Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 Archived from the original on January 12 2022 Retrieved August 24 2019 a b c Frank John May 24 2016 Gov John Hickenlooper reveals secrets in book that puts him in national spotlight The Denver Post Retrieved April 16 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Politico 2011 Arena Profile Gov John Hickenlooper politico com Archived from the original on July 16 2018 Calhoun Patricia May 2 1996 Through a Glass Darkly Westword Retrieved April 18 2019 a b Hickenlooper John Potter Maximillian 2016 The Opposite of Woe My Life in Beer and Politics New York Penguin Press p 183 a b Bohlen Teague August 15 2020 John Hickenlooper s Ten Greatest Political Moments Westword Denver CO Farer Paola July 21 2003 Hickenlooper makes more appointments KUSA TV Denver CO a b Fonda Daren April 18 2005 Able Amateur Time ISSN 0040 781X Retrieved April 18 2019 a b c d e Alberta Tim John Hickenlooper Is Running for President As Himself Uh oh POLITICO Magazine Retrieved April 18 2019 Johnson Fawn October 1 2014 How Denver Leaders Pulled Off a Public Transit Miracle The Atlantic Whaley Monte January 30 2015 Denver is being transformed by FasTracks 10 years after key vote The Denver Post a b c Hadar Roey March 4 2019 Gov John Hickenlooper 7 things you need to know about the 2020 Democrat Washington Week PBS Retrieved July 1 2020 a b Frank John November 27 2016 Gov Hickenlooper debuts aggressive new efforts to battle homelessness with marijuana tax dollars Denver Post Retrieved July 1 2020 Alvarez Alayna January 29 2020 Denver s never ending road home Colorado Politics Retrieved July 1 2020 a b de Yoanna Michael June 24 2015 What s Next After Denver s 10 Year Push To End Homelessness Colorado Public Radio Retrieved July 1 2020 Garcia Nic March 5 2019 5 things to know about where John Hickenlooper stands on education Colorado Politics Merritt George May 1 2007 Hickenlooper coasts to second term The Denver Post Retrieved July 16 2016 DNC host s tax free gas evaporates The Rocky Mountain News Archived from the original on July 23 2008 Osher Christopher N July 29 2008 No more city gas for DNC host cars The Denver Post Retrieved July 16 2016 Molson Coors will fuel DNC vehicles with ethanol from waste beer Denver Business Journal Retrieved July 16 2016 Hickenlooper endorses Ritter for Gov The Rocky Mountain News October 19 2006 Archived from the original on September 15 2008 Retrieved September 16 2020 Knox Don January 6 2010 Can You Say Gov Hickenlooper State Bill Colorado Colorado Governor Bill Ritter not running for re election 9 News January 6 2010 Salazar will not enter governor s race The Denver Post January 7 2010 Roberts Michael January 12 2010 John Hickenlooper to run for governor multiple reports say Westword Bartels Lynn Crummy Karen E August 6 2010 CSU Pueblo chief tapped as Hickenlooper s running mate The Denver Post 2010 Election Results The New York Times November 2010 Retrieved October 24 2014 Frank John November 5 2014 Re elected Gov Hickenlooper The voters of Colorado have spoken The Denver Post a b Taylor Jessica March 4 2019 Former Colorado Gov John Hickenlooper Joins The 2020 Democratic Presidential Fray NPR Retrieved April 18 2019 Shumlin elected to lead DGA with O Comartun as top aide Politico Retrieved July 16 2016 Preston Mark August 25 2017 Source Kasich Hickenlooper consider unity presidential ticket in 2020 CNN Governor of Colorado Ballotpedia Oldham Jennifer Hickenlooper violated Colorado gifts rules twice in 2018 state ethics panel says Washington Post Retrieved August 24 2020 a b Ethics commission fines Hickenlooper 2 750 for ethics violations Colorado taxpayers pay 127 000 in attorney fees KUSA com June 12 2020 Retrieved August 24 2020 Ochsner Evan June 12 2020 Colorado ethics panel orders John Hickenlooper to pay 2 750 for two violations The Colorado Sun Retrieved August 24 2020 Swanson Conrard June 12 2020 John Hickenlooper fined 2 750 for ethics violations as Colorado governor The Denver Post Retrieved August 24 2020 Next senator Hickenlooper The Denver Post December 21 2008 Retrieved December 21 2008 Osher Christopher December 24 2008 Denver mayor confirms interest in Senate job The Denver Post Retrieved December 24 2008 Parnes Amie January 3 2009 Bennet pick shocks some in Colorado The Denver Post Archived from the original on December 8 2015 Retrieved January 3 2009 Hickenlooper John August 22 2019 Not Done Fighting YouTube John Hickenlooper Archived from the original on December 22 2021 Retrieved August 22 2019 John Hickenlooper expected to end his 2020 campaign may shift to Senate run MSNBC com August 15 2019 Wingerter Justin August 12 2019 Hickenlooper would have a massive lead in Senate primary poll finds The Denver Post Retrieved August 22 2019 Six women seeking Colorado Senate seat ask DSCC to reconsider endorsement of Hickenlooper The Washington Post Retrieved September 15 2019 Live Colorado State Primary Election Results 2020 The New York Times June 30 2020 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 1 2020 Hickenlooper Wins The Dem Senate Primary Will Face Cory Gardner CPR News Retrieved June 30 2020 Alas Horus November 3 2020 Democrat John Hickenlooper Defeats Cory Gardner for Colorado Senate Seat U S News Zelinger Marshall January 7 2021 Colorado Congressional Democrats advocate for removing Trump from office KUSA Retrieved January 8 2021 Nicholas Riccardi James Anderson December 5 2018 Colorado s Hickenlooper staffs up for possible 2020 bid Associated Press Retrieved March 4 2019 Form 3P for Hickenlooper 2020 Campaign finance data Federal Election Commission December 23 2019 Golshan Tara March 4 2019 John Hickenlooper former Colorado governor and brewpub owner is running for president Vox Retrieved April 1 2019 Julie Turkewitz March 4 2019 John Hickenlooper Former Colorado Governor Declares Candidacy for President The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved March 4 2019 a b Kyle Balluck Michael Burke March 4 2019 Hickenlooper launches 2020 presidential campaign The Hill Retrieved March 4 2019 Michael Casey February 14 2019 Ex Colorado Gov Hickenlooper tells New Hampshire crowd he supports universal health care The Denver Post Retrieved March 12 2019 Nicholas Riccardi James Anderson December 5 2018 Colorado s Hickenlooper staffs up for possible 2020 bid Associated Press Retrieved March 12 2019 Joe St George March 1 2019 Hickenlooper expected to announce Presidential run next week FOX31 Denver Retrieved March 4 2019 Arke Raymond March 4 2019 How will moderate John Hickenlooper s fundraising compare to bigger names opensecrets org OpenSecrets org Retrieved March 5 2019 Stevens Matt Flegenheimer Matt August 15 2019 John Hickenlooper to End Struggling Presidential Campaign The New York Times Retrieved August 15 2019 John Hickenlooper August 15 2019 Thank You on YouTube Paul Jesse August 15 2019 Hickenlooper formally ends his presidential bid saying he intends to give U S Senate bid serious thought The Colorado Sun Retrieved August 15 2019 a b Roberts Michael May 22 2013 John Hickenlooper gives Nathan Dunlap reprieve from death but doesn t grant clemency Westword Harrison Wayne May 10 2013 Letters urge governor to deny clemency for Nathan Dunlap 7 News Denver Archived from the original on June 8 2013 Gov Hickenlooper grants temporary reprieve of death sentence colorado gov May 22 2013 Archived from the original on April 14 2014 Retrieved July 16 2016 Potter Maximilian Hickenlooper John 2016 The Opposite of Woe My Life in Beer and Politics p 321 ISBN 9781101981689 Colorado Residents Welcome Disaster Relief Legislation CBS Denver Associated Press May 19 2014 Retrieved July 16 2016 a b O Driscoll Patrick November 3 2005 Denver votes to legalize marijuana possession USA Today Retrieved January 5 2023 Ferner Matt September 12 2012 Gov John Hickenlooper Opposes Legal Weed Colorado Is Known For Many Great Things Marijuana Should Not Be One Of Them HuffPost Retrieved January 5 2023 Hadar Roey March 4 2019 Gov John Hickenlooper 7 things you need to know about the 2020 Democrat Washington Week PBS Archived from the original on September 22 2021 Retrieved July 1 2020 Jaeger Kyle March 5 2019 Where Presidential Candidate John Hickenlooper Stands On Marijuana Marijuana Moment Retrieved January 5 2023 Kelly David May 17 2016 Governor who called legalization reckless now says Colorado s pot industry is working Los Angeles Times Luning Ernest March 7 2019 Hickenlooper Feds should let states decide whether to legalize pot VIDEO Colorado Politics Retrieved January 5 2023 Staver Anna April 20 2019 Q amp A John Hickenlooper on Colorado s marijuana legalization and how he talks to his son about pot The Denver Post Archived from the original on April 28 2019 a b Jaeger Kyle March 20 2019 Let States Decriminalize Heroin And Cocaine Presidential Candidate Hickenlooper Says Marijuana Moment Retrieved April 16 2021 Roth Samantha Jo December 2 2022 Colorado s Hickenlooper eyes federal regulation of marijuana post legalization Colorado Politics Retrieved January 5 2023 Jaeger Kyle December 1 2022 Senator Files Bill To Get Country Ready For Federal Marijuana Legalization Amid Heightened Reform Talks Marijuana Moment Retrieved January 5 2023 Hickenlooper signs rural economic development bill March 11 2014 Retrieved July 16 2016 Armbrister Mollie February 17 2016 Online job hunting service for workers without degrees launches in Colorado Denver Business Journal Retrieved February 2 2019 Hendee Caitlin October 26 2017 Hickenlooper launches program for Colorado career coaches Denver Business Journal Retrieved March 2 2019 Paige Ogburn Stephanie February 25 2014 Colorado First State to Limit Methane Pollution from Oil and Gas Wells Scientific American Retrieved March 3 2019 Williams David February 3 2017 Congress looks to gut federal methane rule modeled after Colorado regulations Real Vail Retrieved March 3 2019 McMahon Xandra July 11 2017 Colorado Joins States Upholding Paris Climate Accord Colorado Public Radio Retrieved March 3 2019 Patton Zach August 2014 John Hickenlooper The Man in the Middle www governing com Retrieved April 18 2019 I drank fracking fluid says Colorado Gov John Hickenlooper The Washington Times Retrieved April 18 2019 U S Senate U S Senate Roll Call Votes 117th Congress 1st Session www senate gov a b Bartells Lynn Lee Kurtis March 21 2013 3 new gun bills on the books in Colorado despite its Wild West image The Denver Post pp 1a 10a Kertscher Tom May 30 2019 Fact checking presidential hopeful John Hickenlooper on beating NRA with tough Colorado gun laws PolitiFact Bartels Lynn Lee Kurtis November 17 2013 Evie Hudak resigns Colorado state senator avoids recall election Denver Post Guns Concealed controversy The Denver Post May 2 2008 Frank John April 30 2018 New Colorado red flag bill would allow gun seizure for six months or more from those who pose significant risk The Denver Post Retrieved March 3 2019 Miller Blair May 7 2018 Colorado s red flag bill dies in committee after 3 2 vote along party lines Denver Channel 7 Retrieved March 3 2019 Rennie Julianna April 11 2019 Hickenlooper expanded Medicaid created state run marketplace to insure nearly all Coloradans PolitiFact Hickenlooper John For 50 years the Constitution has protected a woman s right to her own health care decisions Overturning RoevWade shatters that freedom It threatens not just a woman s physical health amp control over her own future but it also threatens to put women amp their doctors in jail Twitter Retrieved June 24 2022 Novello Gabriella October 22 2020 FACT CHECK Gardner and Hickenlooper on Immigration Colorado Times Recorder Retrieved February 5 2021 John Hickenlooper on Immigration ontheissues org On the Issues Retrieved February 5 2021 U S Senate U S Senate Roll Call Votes 117th Congress 1st Session senate gov Retrieved February 5 2021 Sen John Hickenlooper frustrates immigration activists with vote to block some from stimulus checks The Denver Post February 4 2021 Retrieved February 5 2021 Burke Michael March 11 2019 2020 Dem candidate Hickenlooper advocates exploring legalized prostitution TheHill Retrieved April 16 2021 Democratic hopeful Hickenlooper to take on monopolies in economic plan Reuters April 26 2019 Retrieved June 8 2022 Colorado Becoming Leader In Blockchain Technology July 27 2018 Retrieved June 8 2022 Gathright Alan August 4 2006 Hickenloopers out to forsake their LoDo loft Rocky Mountain News Denver Publishing Company pp 6A Retrieved April 24 2010 Governors including Hickenlooper forgoing living in executive mansions Denver Post Archived from the original on April 16 2012 Bartels Lynn July 31 2012 Colorado governor and wife to separate political future still looks bright The Denver Post Retrieved August 5 2012 Gov John Hickenlooper marries Robin Pringle in small ceremony The Denver Post January 16 2016 Kim Caitlyn December 9 2022 Baby Hick Senator John Hickenlooper and wife welcome baby via surrogate Colorado Public Radio Retrieved December 9 2022 Bunch Joey November 18 2019 BEST OF COPO 2018 Hickenlooper looks back ahead Colorado Politics Retrieved September 8 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Woodard Colin March 17 2019 Presidential candidate John Hickenlooper got his start volunteering in Maine Portland Press Herald Portland ME Retrieved April 25 2019 Timpane John October 27 2010 On campaign trail with John Hickenlooper Pennsylvania native running for Colorado governor Inquirer Retrieved August 10 2011 The Honorable John W Hickenlooper Top Takeaways PDF Recently at ECC Economic Club of Chicago November 14 2018 Nordyke Kimberly November 22 2010 George Hickenlooper s Death Caused by Accidental Overdose The Hollywood Reporter Ealy Charles George Hickenlooper The life and times of a director Austin American Statesman Archived from the original on November 8 2010 Retrieved August 10 2011 Kenney Andrew December 6 2018 The Spot Denver politics are about to take center stage and what s coming in 2019 for marijuana The Denver Post Retrieved April 6 2020 a b Rossman Sean March 21 2019 Presidential candidate John Hickenlooper said he watched Deep Throat with his mom USA TODAY Retrieved April 16 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Zug James May 24 2017 National Doubles Goes a Mile High Squash Magazine Retrieved April 16 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Frank John Paul Jesse December 20 2019 John Hickenlooper is worth at least 7 8 million Here is where his money is invested The Colorado Sun Retrieved October 15 2021 Wingerter Justin December 20 2019 John Hickenlooper files financial disclosure form showing net worth is at least 9M The Denver Post Retrieved October 15 2021 Merica Dan June 26 2019 John Hickenlooper didn t mean to forget who you are How face blindness has affected his political career CNN Farrell Susan 2008 Critical companion to Kurt Vonnegut a literary reference to his life and work Infobase p 284 ISBN 978 0 8160 6598 1 Is Denver Mayor Hickenlooper Kurt Vonnegut s Long Lost Son YouTube video Archived from the original on December 22 2021 Sanchez Robert November 16 2012 John Hickenlooper Interview 1212 Esquire Magazine Retrieved December 16 2012 Kaji Mina Szabo Christine Gehlen Bobby August 25 2019 John Hickenlooper Everything you need to know about the former 2020 presidential candidate ABC News Retrieved April 16 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Baumgarten Marjorie January 5 2011 Hickenlooper Lobbies for Casino Jack Austin Chronicle Retrieved April 16 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Further reading EditHickenlooper John Potter Maximillian 2016 The Opposite of Woe My Life in Beer and Politics New York Penguin Press ISBN 9781101981672 OCLC 929055877 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Hickenlooper Senator John Hickenlooper official U S Senate website John Hickenlooper for Colorado campaign websiteBiography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress Profile at Vote Smart John Hickenlooper at Curlie Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Hickenlooper amp oldid 1152995500, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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