Gary King (politician)

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30th Attorney General of New Mexico
In office
January 1, 2007 –January 1, 2015
Parent(s) Bruce King (father)
Alice King (mother)
Education New Mexico State University (BS)
University of Colorado Boulder (MS, PhD)
University of New Mexico (JD)

Gary Kenneth King (born September 29, 1954) is an American lawyer, politician, and energy consultant who served as the 30th attorney general of New Mexico from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2015. King previously served as an advisor in the United States Department of Energy, a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, and the Democratic nominee for New Mexico governor in the 2014 election.

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Early life and education

King is the son of Bruce King, a three-time Governor of New Mexico, [1] and Alice M. King (née Martin), the former First Lady of New Mexico. [2] He attended New Mexico State University and obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1976. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from University of Colorado, Boulder in 1980. He then attended the University of New Mexico School of Law, where earned a Juris Doctor.

Career

In 1984, King formed the law firm of King and Stanley in Moriarty, New Mexico; in 1990, he assumed the position of Corporate General Counsel and Senior Environmental Scientist with Advanced Sciences, Inc., an environmental consulting firm.

From 1986 to 1998, he served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, where he represented the 50th district. [3] [4]

U.S. Department of Energy

In 1998, he became the policy advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, D.C. Within a year, he became the department's director of the Office of Worker and Community Transition. While at the DOE, he developed and implemented a program fostering cooperation between federal, state, local and Native American governments to enhance cleanup activities.

Attorney General

As the 30th Attorney General of New Mexico, King spearheaded the effort to get legislation passed that made it a felony crime to engage in the practice of human trafficking. The United Nations committee invited King to present this legislation as a model for other nations seeking to end the practice of human slavery. [5]

On March 2, 2011, King on behalf of the Respondent, New Mexico, argued before the United States Supreme Court in Bullcoming v. New Mexico . On July 10, 2012, King officially announced that he was seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Mexico. [ citation needed ]

Elections

1998 gubernatorial election

King was a candidate for Governor of New Mexico in the 1998 New Mexico gubernatorial election, placing second in the Democratic primary to then-Mayor of Albuquerque Martin Chavez.

2004 congressional election

In 2004, King ran for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district seat, losing to incumbent Republican Steve Pearce. In 2006, King was elected Attorney General of New Mexico. He was re-elected in 2010, winning against Curry County District Attorney Matthew Chandler.[ citation needed ]

2014 gubernatorial election

On June 3, 2014, King won the New Mexico Democratic primary for governor and was immediately endorsed by his opponents; Alan Webber, Lawrence Rael, Howie Morales and Linda Lopez. King unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Republican governor Susana Martinez in the general election. He told fellow Democrats at a fundraiser that Martinez "does not have a Latino heart". [6]

Personal life

In 1987, he married Yolanda Jones. Jones was the director of Engineering & Technical Management at the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) at Kirtland Air Force Base. She also served as chair for the NATO RTO Sensors and Electronics Technology Panel.

Gary King often accompanied his wife to meetings. They traveled to countries such as Taiwan, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic. [5]

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Yolanda D. Jones King is a retired American laser scientist and defense engineer who worked for many years in the Air Force Research Laboratory. She is a Fellow of the AIAA, a regent of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and the wife of Gary King, the former attorney general of New Mexico.

References

  1. ↑ "Gary King's Biography - Project Vote Smart". Votesmart.org. 1954-09-29. Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  2. ↑ Nash, Kate (2008-12-07). "Alice King, 1930-2008: Former first lady said children were her legacy". Santa Fe New Mexican . Archived from the original on 2023-07-31. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  3. ↑ Gary King's Biography
  4. ↑ Writer, Deborah Baker | Journal Staff. "Sun sets on King political legacy". www.abqjournal.com. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  5. 1 2 Carol A. Clark: For New Mexico’s Attorney General and His Wife – It Really Was Chemistry, Los Alamos Daily Post, June 2, 2014
  6. ↑ "King on Martinez: 'no Latino heart'" Archived 2015-09-05 at the Wayback Machine , weeklystandard.com; accessed October 18, 2014.
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