Ben Vig | |
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Member of the North DakotaHouseofRepresentatives from the 23rd district | |
In office January 2007 –January 2011 | |
Preceded by | Bill Devlin |
Succeeded by | Bill Devlin |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Bismarck State College Valley City State University (BA) |
Benjamin A. Vig is an American politician from North Dakota.
Vig graduated from Valley City State University in 2005. [1] He defeated Bill Devlin in the 2006 elections to represent District 23 in the North Dakota House of Representatives. He lost his reelection bid to Devlin in 2010. Vig considered running for North Dakota's at-large congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 2012 election, [2] but opted against it. [3] He ran for the North Dakota House in District 23 again in 2014,but lost. [4]
In the 2020 elections,Shelley Lenz,the Democratic nominee for governor of North Dakota,selected Vig as her running mate. [4]
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