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Majority Leader Chip Rogers 
Georgia Senate Majority Leader Georgia State Senate Incumbent Assumed office
January 1, 2004Governor Sonny Perdue Preceded by Robert Lamutt Georgia House of Representatives In office
January 1, 2002 – January 1, 2004Preceded by Steve Stancil Succeeded by Charlice Byrd Personal details Born May 3, 1968 Nationality American Political party Republican Spouse(s) Amy Rogers Residence Woodstock, Georgia Towne Lake, Georgia Alma mater Georgia Institute of Technology
J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State UniversityOccupation Communications Consultant
BusinessmanReligion Baptist Website Official site Chip Rogers, born May 3, 1968, is an American politician in the state of Georgia. He is a Republican and was first elected in 2002 to the Georgia General Assembly to the Georgia House of Representatives,[1] in 2004 he was elected to the Georgia State Senate.[2] Rogers was unanimously chosen as the Senate Majority Leader of the U.S. state of Georgia in 2009.
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Biography
Education
Chip Rogers graduated from North Gwinnett High School in 1986 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a certificate in Economics in 1991.[3] He went to attend the Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, graduating with an MBA.[3][4]
Family
Chip Rogers and his wife Amy have four children, and are active members of First Baptist Church of Woodstock.[3]
House of Representatives (2003-2005)
Chip Rogers first ran for office in 2002, winning a majority of the votes in a four-person primary for an open seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.[5] The seat represented the citizens in the southwest corner of Cherokee County that encompasses Woodstock, Towne Lake, and parts of Acworth.[6]
Georgia Senate
After two years in the State House, Representative Rogers ran to replace State Senator Robert Lamutt, who had decided to run for an open Congressional seat vacated by then Congressman Johnny Isakson. Rogers routed the early front runner and lawyer Craig Dowdy in the Republican primary, taking 81% of the vote.[7] Currently, Chip Rogers represents south Cherokee and parts of northeast Cobb County and has not faced major opposition since his 2004 primary.[8]
Committee assignments
Chip Rogers serves on the following committees in the Georgia State Senate.[9]
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- Administrative Affairs
- Appropriations - Ex-Officio
- Assignments
- Banking and Financial Institutions
- Economic Development
- Finance - Secretary
- Insurance and Labor
- Reapportionment and Redistricting
- Rules - Ex-Officio
Georgia Senate Majority Leader (2009-present)
In November 2008, Senator Rogers was unanimously elected Senate Majority Leader for the Republican Party.[3]
Electoral history
Georgia House of Representative Primary Election, 2002 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers 3,447 53.70 Republican Larry Singleton 1,342 20.90 Republican Dawn Marr 1,181 18.40 Republican Jerry Lanham 451 7.00 Georgia House of Representative General Election, 2002 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers 10,034 81.20 Democratic Jerry Moore 2,318 18.80 Georgia State Senate Primary Election, 2004 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers 15,818 81.40 Republican Craig Dowdy 3,625 18.60 Georgia State Senate General Election, 2004 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers 61,810 100.00 Democratic None 0 0.0 Georgia State Senate General Election, 2006 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers 40,417 100.00 Democratic None 0 0.0 Georgia State Senate General Election, 2008 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers 61,991 76.70 Democratic Carlos Lopez 18,776 23.20 Georgia State Senate General Election, 2010 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Chip Rogers Democratic Patrick Thompson References
- ^ http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/election_results/2002_0820/senate.htm
- ^ http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/election_results/2004_0720/senate.htm
- ^ a b c d "Senator Chip Rogers, Senate District 21". Georgia State Senate. http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/Documents/PrintBios/BioRogersChip38.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
- ^ "Project Vote Smart - Senator Chip Rogers - Biography". Votesmart.org. http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=31392. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/election_results/2002_0820/house.htm
- ^ http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/senate/rogersbio.php
- ^ http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/election_results/2004_0720/senate.htm
- ^ http://www.sos.ga.gov/election_results
- ^ http://congress.org/congressorg/bio/id/136568
External links
Preceded by
Tommy WilliamsGeorgia Senate Majority Leader
2009 - PresentSucceeded by
Incumbent- Buddy Carter (R)
- Lester G. Jackson (D)
- William T. Ligon, Jr. (R)
- Jack Hill (R)
- Curt Thompson (D)
- Doug Stoner (D)
- Greg Goggans (R)
- Tim Golden (R)
- Don Balfour (R)
- Emanuel Jones (D)
- John Bulloch (R)
- Freddie Sims (D)
- John Crosby (R)
- George Hooks (D)
- Ed Harbison (D)
- Ronnie Chance (R)
- Rick Jeffares (R)
- Cecil Staton (R)
- Tommie Williams (R)
- Ross Tolleson (R)
- Chip Rogers (R)
- Hardie Davis (D)
- Jesse Stone (R)
- Bill Jackson (R)
- Johnny Grant (R)
- Robert Brown (D)
- Jack Murphy (R)
- Mitch Seabaugh (R)
- Joshua McKoon (R)
- Bill Hamrick (R)
- Bill Heath (R)
- Judson Hill (R)
- Steve Thompson (D)
- Valencia Seay (D)
- Donzella James (D)
- Nan Grogan Orrock (D)
- Lindsey Tippins (R)
- Horacena Tate (D)
- Vincent Fort (D)
- Fran Millar (R)
- Steve Henson (D)
- Jason Carter (D)
- Ronald Ramsey, Sr. (D)
- Gail Davenport (D)
- Renee S. Unterman (R)
- Bill Cowsert (R)
- Frank Ginn (R)
- David Shafer (R)
- Butch Miller (R)
- Jim Butterworth (R)
- Steve Gooch (R)
- Barry Loudermilk (R)
- Jeff Mullis (R)
- Charlie Bethel (R)
- Gloria S. Butler (D)
- John Albers (R)
Republican (36) • Democratic (20) • Georgia General Assembly • Georgia House of Representatives • Georgia State Senate Current statewide executive officials of Georgia
(term of office ends in January 2015)- Governor
Nathan Deal (Republican)
- Other executive officials
Lieutenant Governor: Casey Cagle (Republican) • Secretary of State: Brian Kemp (Republican) • Attorney General: Sam Olens (Republican) • Commissioner of Agriculture: Gary Black (Republican) • Commissioner of Insurance: Ralph Hudgens (Republican) • Commissioner of Labor: Mark Butler (Republican) • Superintendent of Schools: John D. Barge (Republican)
Categories:- Georgia Institute of Technology alumni
- Georgia State University alumni
- People from Cherokee County, Georgia
- Living people
- 1968 births
- People from Atlanta, Georgia
- Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans
- Members of the Georgia House of Representatives
- Georgia (U.S. state) State Senators
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