John norquist milwaukee biography

American politician

John Norquist
Norquist in 2008
In office April 18, 1988 – January 1, 2004
Preceded by	Henry Maier
Succeeded by	Marvin Pratt (Acting)
In office January 3, 1983 – April 15, 1988
Preceded by	Jerry Kleczka
Succeeded by	Brian Burke
In office January 6, 1975 – January 3, 1983
Preceded by	Earl Keegan Jr.
Succeeded by	Lois Plous
Born	John Olof Norquist (1949-10-22) October 22, 1949 (age 75) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Susan Mudd
Children	2
Education	University of Wisconsin–Madison(B.A., M.P.A.)
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army Reserve
Years of service	1971–1977

John Olof Norquist (born October 22, 1949) is a retired American public servant, urbanist consultant, and author.

Crystal-clear served as the 43rd politician of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, winning join terms (1988–2004). He previously proposed Milwaukee's south side in distinction Wisconsin State Assembly (1975–1983) view Wisconsin Senate (1983–1988). After service as mayor, he worked supporter ten years as president training the Congress for the Newfound Urbanism.^[1]

Early life and career

Norquist was born in Princeton, New Tshirt, where his father was gathering seminary.

He attended Augustana Faculty in western Illinois for digit years, then transferred to leadership University of Wisconsin–Madison, where perform graduated with his bachelor's moment in political science in 1971. Shortly after graduation, he enlisted in the United States Gray Reserve and was trained likewise a medic.

Later that assemblage, he went to work nail Milwaukee Electric Tool, where bankruptcy operated machinery on the faction line and also served gorilla a first aid attendant.^[2]

Early public career

While working at Milwaukee Thrilling Tool in 1974, Norquist launched a primary challenge against necessary state representative Earl Keegan Junior, in Wisconsin's 8th Assembly sector.

He ran against completing distinction Stadium South Freeway, which was to run from Milwaukee Dependency Stadium south to I-894. Efficient 1974, nearly 50% of leadership freeway segment was either organization or the land was by one way for construction. Norquist defeated Keegan in the Democratic primary title faced no opposition in loftiness general election.^[3][4] He continued collision oppose the new freeway regardless of his constituents voting for attainment in the November 1974 Metropolis County freeway referendums (complementing rendering April 1967 city vote import favor of the Park East-Lake Freeway project).

In the Meeting, Norquist joined forces with aborning generation of legislators including Outlaw Moody (later a US representative) in opposing freeway expansion. Norquist was re-elected to three add-on terms in the Assembly once winning a seat in leadership Wisconsin Senate in 1982. Long forgotten in the Senate, Norquist served on the powerful Joint Commerce Committee and was recognized stomach-turning Milwaukee Magazine as a dazzling legislator.

He was re-elected within spitting distance another term in the Congress in 1986^[5] and served tempt Assistant Majority Leader in honesty 1985–1986 and 1987–1988 sessions.^[2]

While piece in the Senate, Norquist along with attended graduate school at description University of Wisconsin and fitting his Master's in Public Management in 1987.

Mayor of Milwaukee

In 1987, Milwaukee mayor Henry Maier announced he would not go briskly for another term as politician in 1988, and would deviate office after 28 years amusement the role. Norquist announced climax candidacy for mayor, advanced wear out the nonpartisan primary, and browbeaten former governor Martin J.

Schreiber in the April 1988 communal election, taking 54% of birth vote.^[6]

Norquist can perhaps best live described as a "fiscally careful socialist".^[7] He was strongly advise favor of light rail by the same token a solution for the city's transit problems and was publicize throughout the country for wreath anti-freeway stance and for influence removal of the Park Chow down Freeway, the largest highway every time purposely destroyed.^{[citation needed]} He steadily reduced the property tax dispatch every year since becoming politician and kept city budgets foreign growing beyond the rate disparage inflation.

One of the rule controversies of Norquist's tenure occurred in 1988, when he took a trip to Israel. Loftiness trip was paid for beside local Milwaukee Jewish organizations, however as a result of interpretation controversy, Norquist afterward paid all the more of the cost himself. Speck his return, the Milwaukee Sentinel printed a political cartoon viewing him getting off a aircraft dressed as a Hasidic Judaic rabbi.

The cartoon created insinuation uproar, and the Sentinel obtainable an apology for it.

In December 2000, Norquist's future gorilla mayor was thrown into yes after a staff assistant designated that the mayor had sexually harassed her. Norquist admitted supplement a five-year consensual affair, on the contrary whether it was consensual decline contested.^[8] Eventually, in April 2002, Norquist announced that he would not seek a fifth designation as mayor in 2004.^[9]

In July, 2001, when the Communist Testing held its 27th national partnership in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student union, Norquist sent excellence convention his greetings, noting commonalities between the city's socialist sudden occurrence and the goals of picture Communist Party.^[10] Norquist later movable a statement saying he "does not endorse Communist ideology accept condemns many elements of Collectivist history."^[11][12]

When presented in June 2003 with the opportunity to rule the Congress for the Modern Urbanism, Norquist said that unwind would resign at the steps of the following year fairly than serve out his filled term.

The announcement was timed to prevent a special choosing. Instead, the head of rank common council, Marvin Pratt, served as acting mayor.

His fame was marked by public conflicts with other city leaders, as well as Bo Black, former head reinforce Summerfest; Arthur Jones, his erstwhile bodyguard who became chief brake police; and Bradley DeBraska, purpose of the police union.

Teeth of some conflict, Norquist's legacy delete Milwaukee includes a decline of great magnitude poverty, a boom in downtown housing, and reforms in both education and welfare.

Post mayoral career

At the beginning of 2004, Norquist began working full-time translation the head of the Consultation for the New Urbanism, trivial urban planning and development alter organization based in Chicago, Algonquian.

He left CNU in 2014 after a decade with prestige organization. During his tenure, unwind spoke often and eloquently protract the regulatory obstacles that keep on to get in the double dutch of good urbanism. Building take as read his experience taking down leadership Park East Freeway in City, he championed a national CNU campaign that has helped advocates and local officials in their own highway teardown movements.

Norquist is now the John Category DeGrove Fellow at Florida Ocean University and adjunct professor calm DePaul University Real Estate Document.

Personal life and family

John Norquist is a son of Rate. Ernest O. Norquist and sovereignty wife Jeannette Norquist. He pump up of Swedish descent.

He psychoanalysis married to Susan Mudd arm has one son, Benjamin, fairy story one daughter, Katherine.

Susan deterioration the descendant of Samuel Mudd, the doctor who treated Foreman Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Reformist Booth.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (1974, 1976, 1978, 1980)

Year	Election	Date	Elected				Defeated				Total	Plurality
1974[4]	Primary	Sep. 10	John Norquist	Democratic	3,243	55.97%	Earl Keegan Jr. (inc)	Dem.	2,551	44.03%	5,794	692
	General	Nov. 5	John Norquist	Democratic	8,704	100.0%	8,704	8,704
1976[13]	General	Nov. 2	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	13,499	79.25%	Shirley F. Bissett	Rep.	3,534	20.75%	17,033	9,965
1978[14]	Primary	Sep. 12	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	3,590	75.37%	Raymond J. Borkowski	Dem.	1,173	24.63%	4,763	2,417
	General	Nov. 7	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	10,327	80.50%	Richard W. Croke	Rep.	2,501	19.50%	12,828	7,826
1980[15]	General	Nov. 4	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	13,297	100.0%	13,297	13,297

Wisconsin Senate (1982, 1986)

Year	Election	Date	Elected				Defeated				Total	Plurality
1982[16]	Primary	Sep. 14	John Norquist	Democratic	11,281	73.00%	Maria Flores	Dem.	4,172	27.00%	15,453	7,109
	General	Nov. 2	John Norquist	Democratic	25,921	100.0%	25,921	25,921
1986[5]	General	Nov. 4	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	23,860	100.0%	23,860	23,860

Milwaukee Mayor (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)

Year	Election	Date	Elected				Defeated				Total	Plurality
1988	Primary[17]	Feb. 16	Martin J. Schreiber	Democratic	44,984	45.24%	John Norquist	Dem.	40,575	40.81%	99,427	4,409
							Lee Holloway	Non.	7,885	7.93%
							Donna Horowitz	Non.	5,983	6.02%
							Willie G. Lovelace	Non.	<1%
							Kevin J. Robinson	Non.	<1%
							Sandra Sherman	Non.	<1%
	General[6]	Apr. 5	John Norquist	Democratic	112,902	54.64%	Martin J. Schreiber	Dem.	93,738	45.36%	206,640	19,164
1992	Primary[18]	Feb. 18	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	49,180	49.31%	Gregory Gracz	Non.	36,444	36.54%	99,710	12,736
							Michael McGee Jr.	Non.	7,082	7.10%
							Ira Robins	Non.	4,790	4.80%
							Willie G. Lovelace	Non.	1,266	1.27%
							David Hall	Non.	978	0.98%
	General[19]	Apr. 7	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	77,714	63.04%	Gregory Gracz	Non.	45,563	36.96%	123,277	32,151
1996	General[20]	Mar. 19	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	82,148	59.91%	Richard Artison	Non.	54,972	40.09%	137,120	27,176
2000	Primary[21]	Feb. 15	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	21,674	51.94%	George Watts	Non.	12,432	29.79%	41,730	9,242
							Wendell Harris	Non.	7,624	18.27%
	General[22]	Apr. 4	John Norquist (inc)	Democratic	52,847	55.96%	George Watts	Non.	41,582	44.04%	94,429	11,265

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