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John Wright Hickenlooper, Jr. (born February 7, 1952) is a member of the Democratic Party and the 42nd and current Governor of Colorado. Hickenlooper has served as Governor since 2011. He serves as a member of the Western Governors' Association,〔http://westgov.org/governors〕 and was the Chairman of the National Governors' Association. from 2014-2015.〔http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/COMMITTEELIST.PDF〕 Born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, Hickenlooper is a graduate of Wesleyan University. After his career as a geologist, Hickenlooper entered a career in business and cofounded the Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver. Hickenlooper was elected the 43rd Mayor of Denver in 2003, serving two terms until 2011. After incumbent Governor Bill Ritter announced that he would not seek reelection, Hickenlooper announced his intentions to run for the Democratic nomination in January 2010. He won in an uncontested primary and faced Constitution Party candidate, former Representative Tom Tancredo, and Republican businessman Dan Maes in the general election, which he won with 51% of the vote. He was re-elected to a second term in 2014, defeating Republican former U.S. Representative Bob Beauprez by 49% to 46%. ==Early life, education and career== Hickenlooper was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, a middle-class area of the suburban Main Line. He is the son of Anne (née Morris) and John Wright Hickenlooper.〔http://www.5280.com/magazine/2012/08/happy-shrewdness-john-w-hickenlooper?page=0,6〕 He was raised by his mother after his father died when he was young. He graduated from Haverford School for boys in 1970, going on to attend Wesleyan University where he received a B.A. in English in 1974 and a master's degree in geology in 1980. Hickenlooper worked as a geologist in Colorado for Buckhorn Petroleum in the early 1980s. With the decline of the local oil industry, Hickenlooper was laid off. Instead of moving away, he decided to start the Wynkoop Brewing Company brewpub in 1988. Wynkoop and a few other businesses contributed to the redevelopment of the LoDo area following the arrival of major league baseball to the neighborhood. Previously, the area was known to be dangerous; Hickenlooper is quoted as saying, "I must've had rocks in my head (I chose that location )." When it first opened, the rent for Wynkoop's real estate was $1 per square foot per year.〔"(Mile-High Madness )", by Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated, October 2007〕 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「John Hickenlooper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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