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
3
Congresses Served
3
House Terms
March 8, 1970 (54 years old)
Birthday
- 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