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Michael Richard "Mike" Pence is the 48th vice president of the United States. He was elected on November 8, 2016. President Donald Trump announced that he had selected Pence as his running mate on July 15, 2016.[1]

Pence served as the 50th governor of Indiana from January 14, 2013, to January 9, 2017. In April 2013, an analysis of Republican governors conducted by Nate Silver of the New York Times ranked Pence as the second most conservative governor in the country.[2]

From 2001 to 2013, Pence served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During his final year in the House, Pence was rated a "far-right Republican leader" based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack.[3]

As of January 24, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence had cast eight tie-breaking votes in the Senate:

Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana. He graduated from Hanover College in 1981, and he earned his J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1986.[11] After graduating from Hanover, Pence worked as an admissions counselor at the college until 1983. He then went to law school and worked as a private practice attorney from 1986 to 1990. From 1991 to 1994, he served as president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and was a talk show host on Network Indiana from 1994 to 2000. In 2000, he began his political career.[12]

Pence is the 48th vice president of the United States. He was elected vice president on November 8, 2016, and sworn in on January 20, 2017.

Pence served as governor of Indiana from January 14, 2013 to January 9, 2017. He was succeeded by Eric Holcomb (R).[13][14]

Pence served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013. In 2000, he won election to Indiana's 2nd congressional district. In 2002, the district was renumbered as Indiana's 6th congressional district. Pence served in the seat until 2013.

The Personal Gain Index (U.S. Congress) is a two-part measurement that illustrates the extent to which members of the U.S. Congress have prospered during their tenure as public servants. It consists of two different metrics:

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Pence's net worth as of 2010 was estimated between $11,015 and $169,000. That averages to $90,007.50, which was lower than the average net worth of Republican representatives in 2010 of $7,561,133.[15] Between 2004 and 2012, Pence's calculated net worth[16] increased by an average of 155 percent per year. Between 2004 and 2014, the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was 15.4 percent.[17]

Each year National Journal published an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Pence ranked 19th in the conservative rankings in 2011.[20]

Mike Pence voted with the Republican Party 94 percent of the time, which ranked 74th among the 242 House Republican members as of November 2011.[21]

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Several news outlets reported that Pence was traveling to meet with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on July 1, 2016, and that he was formally being vetted as a potential running mate for Trump. Pence's office confirmed the meeting in an official statement, but the governor downplayed a possible VP pick, saying, "I haven't talked to him about that topic. My focus is here in the Hoosier state and that is where it will stay."[22]

On July 15, 2016, Trump announced that he had selected Pence as his running mate.[1]

Pence was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team. The transition team was a group of around 100 aides, policy experts, government affairs officials, and former government officials who were tasked with vetting, interviewing, and recommending individuals for top cabinet and staff roles in Trump's administration. According to The New York Times, Pence took over the transition's chairmanship, which had previously been run by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, on November 11, 2016.[23]

Pence endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[24]

Pence had previously endorsed Ted Cruz.[25]

Pence initially filed as a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2016 and ran unopposed in the Republican primary election. However, after rumors had circulated for weeks, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced in the morning on July 15, 2016, via Twitter that Pence would be joining his ticket as his running mate and vice presidential pick. Pence withdrew from the race the same day, just prior to the noon deadline.[26]

Pence was considered a potential Republican candidate for the 2016 presidential election. However, he announced that he would not seek the presidency on May 19, 2015.[27][28]

Pence won election as governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence was slated to face Fishers businessman Jim Wallace in the May 8, 2012, Republican primary election, but Wallace was removed from the ballot by the Indiana Election Commission on February 24, 2012, for failing to receive the requisite 500 signatures per congressional district. Thus, Pence was unopposed in the Republican primary, and he defeated former House Speaker John Gregg (D), Rupert Boneham (L), and write-in candidate Donnie Harold Harris in the general election on November 6, 2012.[29][30][31]

In terms of economic development, Pence said, "We would identify personnel in the IEDC with essentially an investment background that we would recruit and say, 'We want you to go to each community in this state and evaluate the assets on the ground. And we want you to meet with business leaders.'"[32]

In a letter to Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) in August 2012, Pence said that if elected governor he would not set up a health insurance exchange in Indiana, leaving the job to the federal government instead. I believe Indiana should take no part in this deeply flawed health care bureaucracy, he stated.[33]

The major issue of the 2012 campaign was jobs, with each candidate detailing their plan to get citizens back to work. Pence said he would create a jobs cabinet made up of business leaders and investment specialists who would support start-up businesses.[34]

On November 2, 2010, Pence won re-election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Barry Welsh (D) and Talmage "T.J" Thompson Jr. (Lib.) in the general election.[35]

Pence won re-election to the position of Governor of Indiana in 2012. During that election cycle, Pence raised a total of $14,841,352.

Pence won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. During that re-election cycle, Pence's campaign committee raised a total of $2,684,316 and spent $2,654,178.[37]

Pence and his wife, Karen, have been married since 1985. They have three children: Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey.[11]

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