Jack Voight

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Jack C. Voight (born December 17, 1945) is the outgoing State Treasurer of the State of Wisconsin. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Born and raised in New London, Wisconsin, Voight received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1971. After serving as an Army sergeant from 1968-70, he moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where he established an insurance agency.

Voight served on the Appleton City Council from 1983 - 1993, holding the position of council president from 1992 - 1993.

When incumbent Treasurer Cathy Zeuske ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in 1994, Voight ran as the Republican nominee to replace her. He was elected that year, and re-elected in 1998 and 2002.

He was defeated for re-election on November 7, 2006, by Democrat Dawn Marie Sass in what was considered an upset. Voight had defeated Sass in both 1998 and 2002, and Sass said she spent less than $4000 on the race, most out of her own pocket.[1]

Voight held the position of president of the National Association of State Treasurers in 1997.

[edit] Electoral history

• 2006 Race for State Treasurer
  • Dawn Marie Sass (D), 47%
  • Jack Voight (R) (inc.), 47%
  • Tim Peterson (Lib.), 3%
  • Winston Sephus (Grn.), 3%

Preceded by Cathy Zeuske

State Treasurer of Wisconsin 1995 – 2007

Succeeded by Dawn Marie Sass

State Treasurers of the United States
AK: Bill Corbus (R)* AL: Kay Ivey (R) AR: Martha Shoffner (D) AZ: Dean Martin (R) CA: Bill Lockyer (D) CO: Cary Kennedy (D) CT: Denise L. Nappier (D) DE: Jack Markell (D) FL: Alex Sink (D)* GA: Daniel Ebersole (R)	HI: Georgina K. Kawamura (R) IA: Michael Fitzgerald (D) ID: Ron Crane (R) IL: Alexi Giannoulias (D) IN: Richard Mourdock (R) KS: Lynn Jenkins (R) KY: Jonathan Miller (D) LA: John N. Kennedy (D) MA: Timothy P. Cahill (D) MD: Nancy K. Kopp (R)	ME: David Lemoine (D) MI: Robert J. Kleine (D) MN: Peggy Ingison (R)* MO: Sarah Steelman (R) MS: Tate Reeves (R) MT: Dan Bucks (D) NC: Richard H. Moore (D) ND: Kelly Schmidt (R) NE: Shane Osborn (R) NH: Michael A. Ablowich (D)	NJ: Bradley Abelow (D) NM: James Lewis (D) NV: Kate Marshall (D) NY: Thomas DiNapoli (D)* OH: Richard Cordray (D) OK: Scott Meacham (D) OR: Randall Edwards (D) PA: Tony Wagner (D) RI: Frank Caprio (D) SC: Grady Patterson (D)	SD: Vern Larson (R) TN: Dale Sims (D) TX: Susan Combs (R)* UT: Edward Alter (R) VA: Braxton Powell (D) VT: Jeb Spaulding (D) WA: Michael J. Murphy (D) WI: Dawn Sass (D) WV: John Perdue (D) WY: Joe Meyer (R)
*No treasurer in this state; closest equivalent listed