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Michael Avery "Mike" Ross (born August 2, 1961) is an American businessman and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative for from 2001 to 2013. He is also a former small business owner, former member of the Arkansas State Senate and a former member of the Nevada County Quorum Court. On July 25, 2011, Ross announced that he would not seek re-election to the House in 2012.〔Millman, Joel; Glueck, Katie. ("Two Democrats Bow Out of Re-Election Bids," ) ''Wall Street Journal'', July 26, 2011.〕 He instead became the Democratic nominee for governor of Arkansas in the general election scheduled for November 4, 2014. He faced the Republican choice, former U.S. Representative Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas's 3rd congressional district and the 2006 failed nominee against outgoing Governor Mike Beebe, a Democrat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arkansas Primary Election Results, May 20, 2014 )〕 Ross lost to Hutchinson in the general election. ==Early life, education and career== Ross was born in Texarkana, Arkansas. He is a fifth-generation Arkansan, he lived for many years in Prescott until relocating in 2013 to the capital city of Little Rock. He is the grandson of farmers and a nurse and the son of two public school educators. He graduated from high school in Hope, Arkansas and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, working his way through college as a local radio announcer. Together with his wife, Holly, Ross owned and operated a small pharmacy in their hometown of Prescott, Arkansas, which they sold in May 2007. Mike and Holly Ross have been married for 30 years, and they have two grown children. They are members of the Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, where they now live. By the age of 20, Ross was driving and staffing then former Governor Bill Clinton as he successfully waged his "come back" campaign for a second term as Governor of Arkansas. During the 1980s, Ross was also vice president for colleges for the Young Democrats of Arkansas and served for many years on the Democratic Party of Arkansas's state committee and its executive committee. Ross previously served on the Nevada County Quorum Court from 1983 to 1985 and as Chief of Staff to then-Lieutenant Governor Winston Bryant from 1985 to 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet Mike )〕 Ross was a member of the Arkansas State Senate for ten years (1991–2001), before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas's 4th congressional district in 2000. Ross left Congress on January 3, 2013, after choosing not to seek a seventh term and after a brief stint in the private sector as an officer and senior vice president at the Little Rock based non-profit Southwest Power Pool, he announced his candidacy for Governor of Arkansas on April 17, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Ross (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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