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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 13th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 1997
Preceded byLynn Rivers
Succeeded byHansen Clarke (elect)
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBernard Kilpatrick (divorced)
ChildrenKwame Kilpatrick
ResidenceDetroit
Alma materFerris State University, Western Michigan University, University of Michigan
Occupationhigh school teacher

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district, serving since 1997. (Prior to 2003, she represented the 15th district, which was substantially the same area.) She is a member of the Democratic Party. In August 2010 she lost the Democratic primary election.[1] She will be replaced by Hansen Clarke in the next congress, starting in January 2011.[2]

The 13th district, which is entirely contained within Wayne County, runs along the Detroit River (which is also the Canadian border) from the northern county line to the southern line; it includes Grosse Pointe, half of Detroit, and portions of Downriver.

Early life, education and career

Born Carolyn Jean Cheeks, she graduated from the Detroit High School of Commerce. She then attended Ferris State University in Big Rapids from 1968 to 1970 and received a B.S. from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) in 1972. She earned a M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1977. She worked as a high school teacher and was later a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Caucus and other membership

She was one of the 31 who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004. [3]

On December 6, 2006, the Congressional Black Caucus unanimously chose Kilpatrick as its chairwoman for the 110th Congress (2007-8).

On September 29, 2008, she voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [2]

Political campaigns

In 1996, Kilpatrick challenged three-term incumbent Barbara-Rose Collins in the 1996 Democratic primary for the 15th District. She defeated Collins by a shocking margin, taking 51.6 percent of the vote to Collins' 30.6 percent. This was tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic, black-majority district. She has been reelected six times, never dropping below 80 percent of the vote. She faced no major-party opposition in 2004 and was completely unopposed in 2006.

2008

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, 2008 § District 13

Her first serious opposition came during the 2008 primary, when she was challenged by both former State Representative Mary Waters and State Senator Martha Scott in the Democratic primary. Kilpatrick's campaign was plagued by the controversy surrounding her son and his involvement in a text messaging sex scandal. However, on the August 5 primary election, Kilpatrick narrowly won with 39.1 percent of the vote, compared to Waters' 36 percent and Scott's 24 percent.

2010

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, 2010 § District 13

In 2010, she was again challenged in the Democratic primary, but opposition coalesced around one main challenger before voting commenced; on August 3, 2010, Kilpatrick was defeated by State Senator Hansen Clarke. “This is the final curtain: the ending of the Kilpatrick dynasty,” said Detroit political consultant Eric Foster of Foster, McCollum, White and Assoc. [4]

Personal life

Kilpatrick was married to Bernard Nathaniel Kilpatrick, with whom she has daughter Ayanna and son Kwame Kilpatrick, former Mayor of Detroit. She has six grandsons, including two sets of twins.

She is a member of the Detroit Substance Abuse Advisory Council.

References

  1. ^ http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/kilpatrick-loses-democratic-primary/
  2. ^ http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7060634n
  3. ^ http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll007.xml
  4. ^ [1]
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 15th congressional district
1997–2003 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 13th congressional district
2003–present 		Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by United States Representatives by seniority
155th 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Chairperson of Congressional Black Caucus
2007–2009 		Succeeded by

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