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Greg Stanton

Democrat Representative of Arizona's 4th district

  • Representative

    Arizona, district 9

    January 3, 2019 - January 3, 2021

  • Representative

    Arizona, district 9

    January 3, 2021 - January 3, 2023

  • Representative

    Arizona, district 4

    January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025

202-225-9888

@RepGregStanton

stanton.house.gov

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March 8, 1970 (54 years old)

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  • Served as the U.S. representative from Arizona’s 4th congressional district since 2019
  • Previously served as the mayor of Phoenix from 2012 to 2018
  • Served on the Phoenix City Council from 2000 until 2009
  • Elected mayor in 2011 and reelected in 2015
  • Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after Kyrsten Sinema ran for the U.S. Senate
  • Re-elected to the House in 2020 with 61% of the vote and in 2022 with 56% of the vote
  • Born in Long Island, New York, and moved to Arizona, graduating from Cortez High School
  • Holds a B.A. in history and political science from Marquette University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School
  • Worked as an education attorney before entering politics
  • Became an adjunct professor at Arizona Summit Law School in 2014
  • Advocated against the 2013 federal budget sequestration
  • Named one of Governing magazine’s Public Officials of the Year in 2017 for efforts to expand light rail, bike lanes, and sidewalks and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  • Committee assignments include the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Member of the New Democrat Coalition and Chair of the Immigration Task Force
  • Supported repealing the city food tax, public pension reforms, and opposed the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade
  • Supported the Equality Act to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Condemned Azerbaijan’s offensive operations against Nagorno-Karabakh and called for an immediate ceasefire in 2020
  • Voted with President Joe Biden’s stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress
  • Married to Nicole Stanton, an attorney for a cannabis company, with whom he has two children
  • Practices Catholicism