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Patrick Joseph "Pat" Quinn, Jr. (born December 16, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 41st Governor of Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party, Quinn began his career as an activist by founding the Coalition for Political Honesty and served as Governor from 2009 until 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pat Quinn - The Man Politicians Love to Hate )〕 Born in Hinsdale, Illinois, Quinn is a graduate of Georgetown University and Northwestern University School of Law. Quinn began his career as a tax attorney in private practice before working as an aide to former Illinois Governor Dan Walker. He was elected to one term as a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Tax Appeals, serving from 1982 to 1986; later serving as revenue director in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. Quinn served as Treasurer of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. In Illinois's 2002 gubernatorial election, Quinn won the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois running alongside then-U.S. Representative Rod Blagojevich. He was sworn into office as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 2003. Quinn assumed the governorship on January 29, 2009, after Governor Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office on corruption charges. Quinn was elected to a full term in office in the Illinois 2010 gubernatorial election, defeating Republican State Senator Bill Brady by a margin of less than 1% out of about 3.5 million votes cast. He then lost the Governor's seat in the Illinois 2014 gubernatorial election. Quinn was the favorite to win reelection to a second full term in office, despite a 43 percent approval rating. However, Quinn lost the 2014 campaign with 46.35% of the vote, to Bruce Rauner's 50.27%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bruce Rauner ousts Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn )〕 ==Early life and education== Quinn was born in 1948 in Chicago. His family moved to the suburb of Hinsdale, Illinois, when he was a small boy. The son of Eileen (Prindiville) and Patrick Joseph Quinn, Jr., a public relations official for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.〔Michael Barone and Chuck McCutcheon, ''The Almanac of American Politics: 2012'' (2011) p. 512.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pat Quinn's mom shows toughness, love on the campaign trail )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Death Notice: PATRICK J. QUINN SR. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pat Quinn - Illinois Issues - A Publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS )〕 His grandparents were Irish. He was reared a Roman Catholic and attended the local Roman Catholic elementary school, St. Isaac Jogues.〔Michael Barone and Chuck McCutcheon, ''The Almanac of American Politics: 2012'' (2011) p 512〕 He graduated in 1967 from Fenwick High School, a Roman Catholic school in Oak Park, Illinois; while at Fenwick, Quinn was the cross-country team captain and sports editor of the school newspaper. Quinn went on to graduate from Georgetown University in 1971 with a bachelor's degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he was a student of Professor Jan Karski〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Polish-American Awareness Foundation, Inc – Polish-American Awareness Foundation, Inc )〕 and a sports editor for ''The Hoya''. After taking a few years off from education, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Pat Quinn 1967 )〕 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「Pat Quinn (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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