Peter Michael Ag
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apparently indep</p><p>app by dem</p><p>https://ballotpedia.org/Gregory_Alan_Phillips
</p><p>asst ross jumps ship to schimel PA</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-ross-3b85697a">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-ross-3b85697a</a></p><p>
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<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Mr. Michael grew up in Media, Penn. He graduated from Yale University in 1978 with a BA in American History and immediately moved to Jackson, Wyo., where he worked as a construction laborer, cook, and fishing guide. He graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1985 with honors and was managing editor of the Land & Water Law Review. He was a Law Clerk for Justice G. Joseph Cardine of the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1986. Mr. Michael spent 20 years, from 1986-2006, in private law practice, primarily civil litigation, in Cheyenne, Wyo. He joined the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office in 2006 as a Senior Assistant Attorney General supervising the water law section of the Natural Resources Division. Attorney General Greg Phillips appointed him Chief Deputy Attorney General effective May 1, 2011. When General Phillips joined the bench of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Governor Mead appointed Mr. Michael as interim attorney general prior to his permanent appointment as attorney general.</span>
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<b style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Michael</b><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(born in Media,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Pennsylvania</a><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">) is the current<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wyoming_Attorney_General" title="Wyoming Attorney General" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Attorney General of Wyoming</a><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">. Governor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Matt_Mead" title="Matt Mead" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Matt Mead</a><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>named Michael to the interim position on July 22, 2013. The post was vacant after former<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic" title="Democratic" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Democratic</a><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>attorney general<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Gregory_Alan_Phillips" title="Gregory Alan Phillips" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Gregory Alan Phillips</a><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>moved to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.</span><sup id="cite_ref-county_2-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-county-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Governor Mead officially appointed Michael to the attorney general position on September 5, 2013.</span><sup id="cite_ref-ten_3-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-ten-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Michael also serves on the Character and Fitness Committee of the Wyoming State Bar Board of Law Examiners.</span></p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After graduating from Yale in 1978, Michael moved to Wyoming to begin construction work at Darwin Ranch. He has also been a hotel cook, professional flytier, and guided fly fisherman. Michael entered law school at the University of Wyoming in 1982 and was editor of the Land and Water Law Review. He graduated with honors in 1985.
Peter Michael clerked for Justice G Joseph Cardine at the Wyoming Supreme Court before entering a private law practice at Lathrop & Uchner. Michael worked in private law until 2006 when he joined the attorney general's office.<sup id="cite_ref-uwyo_4-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-uwyo-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bachelor's degree, Yale University, American History (1978)</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Juris Doctorate degree, University of Wyoming Law School (1985)</li>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Governor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Matt_Mead" title="Matt Mead" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Matt Mead</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>officially named Michael to the position on September 5, 2013 after he had been serving as interim attorney general since July 22, 2013. Mead said in a speech at the announcement that “Pete is an outstanding attorney, an outstanding individual and it has been a pleasure to work with him over the last two and a half years. I am pleased to have him as Wyoming’s next Attorney General.”<sup id="cite_ref-ten_3-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-ten-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Governor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Matt_Mead" title="Matt Mead" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Matt Mead</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>named Michael to the position on July 22, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-county_2-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-county-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Michael had been originally been appointed to serve as chief deputy attorney general under predecessor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Gregory_Alan_Phillips" title="Gregory Alan Phillips" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gregory Alan Phillips</a>, who left office in order to become a circuit court judge for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Tenth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Court of Appeals</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on July 8, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a></sup></p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael represented Wyoming in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Montana v. Wyoming filed in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-uwyo_4-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-uwyo-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael was appointed to serve as interim<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Attorney_General_of_Wyoming" title="Attorney General of Wyoming" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Attorney General of Wyoming</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Governor_of_Wyoming" title="Governor of Wyoming" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Governor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Matt_Mead" title="Matt Mead" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Matt Mead</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on July 22, 2013, and as official Attorney General on September 5, 2013 to fill the seat left vacant by former officeholder<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Gregory_Alan_Phillips" title="Gregory Alan Phillips" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gregory Alan Phillips</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(D). Before stepping down, Phillips had appointed Michael as chief deputy attorney general.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup></p>
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</a><p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:USA_Wyoming_location_map.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none !important; display: block; border: none !important;"><i>This excerpt is reprinted here with the permission of the 2016 edition of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></a><i><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Almanac_of_American_Politics" title="Almanac of American Politics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Almanac of American Politics</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and is up to date as of the publication date of that edition. All text is reproduced verbatim, though links have been added by Ballotpedia staff.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wyoming_state_profile" title="Wyoming state profile" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">To read the full chapter on Wyoming, click here</a>.
America’s frontier disappeared in 1890, according to the Census Bureau and historian Frederick Jackson Turner, but some people still believe they are living on the frontier in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wyoming" title="Wyoming" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wyoming</a>. This is “the land of the cowboy,” as the WPA Guide said more than 70 years ago. “Its mountains, plains, and valleys are essentially livestock country. A cowboy astride a bucking bronco greets the visitor from enameled license plates, from newspapers, magazines, and painted signs.” The cowboy is still on the license plates, and Wyoming remains the most western of states in spirit—largely unsettled, with a thin veneer of civilization stretched over a forbidding and beautiful land. After the open range era, cattle ranches were made possible by the barbed wire that could fence in roaming herds and the steam locomotives that could carry cattle to markets in the East.</p>
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Wyoming is still stretched thinly in some places: The Census Bureau missed three of the four people in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lost_Springs,_Wyoming" title="Lost Springs, Wyoming" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lost Springs</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 2000 but got them all in 2010, and the one-person town of Buford was sold in 2012 to a Vietnamese investor. Though Wyoming is still the least populous<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wyoming_state_profile#History" title="Wyoming state profile" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">... (read more)</a></p>
<table width="500px" align="right" style=" font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;"><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: white;"><th colspan="3">Demographic data for Wyoming</th></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: white;"><th width="50%"> </th><th width="25%">Wyoming</th><th width="25%">U.S.</th></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Total population:</td><td><b>575,251</b></td><td><i>314,107,084</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Land area (sq mi):</td><td><b>97,093</b></td><td><i>3,531,905</i></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 162, 54);"><th colspan="3"><i>Gender</i></th></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Female:</td><td><b>49%</b></td><td><i>50.8%</i></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 162, 54);"><th colspan="3"><i><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Race_and_Ethnicity_on_the_United_States_Census" title="Race and Ethnicity on the United States Census" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Race and ethnicity</a></i></th></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">White:</td><td><b>84.8%</b></td><td><i>62.8%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Black/African American:</td><td><b>1%</b></td><td><i>12.6%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Asian:</td><td><b>0.9%</b></td><td><i>5%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Native American:</td><td><b>2.3%</b></td><td><i>0.8%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Pacific Islander:</td><td><b>0.1%</b></td><td><i>0.2%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Two or more:</td><td><b>2.7%</b></td><td><i>2.9%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Hispanic/Latino:</td><td><b>9.4%</b></td><td><i>16.9%</i></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 162, 54);"><th colspan="3"><i><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Education_Policy" title="Education Policy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Education</a></i></th></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">High school graduation rate:</td><td><b>92.3%</b></td><td><i>86.3%</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">College graduation rate:</td><td><b>25.1%</b></td><td><i>29.3%</i></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 162, 54);"><th colspan="3"><i>Income</i></th></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Median household income:</td><td><b>$58,252</b></td><td><i>$53,482</i></td></tr><tr><td style=" background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: left;">Persons below poverty level:</td><td><b>11.6%</b></td><td><i>14.8%</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style=" font-size: 11.2px;">Source:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>U.S. Census Bureau</i>, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2014)</td></tr></tbody></table>
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<b>Wyoming vote percentages</b></p>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2012:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>27.8% Democratic / 68.6% Republican</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2008:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>32.4% Democratic / 64.4% Republican</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2004:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>29.1% Democratic / 68.9% Republican</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2000:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>27.7% Democratic / 67.8% Republican</li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2012:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>51.1% Democratic / 47.2% Republican</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2008:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>52.9% Democratic / 45.7% Republican</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2004:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>48.3% Democratic / 50.7% Republican</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>2000:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>48.4% Democratic / 47.9% Republican</li>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael lives with his wife, Lucinda Schmid, in a century old house near the state capitol. He has two sons. Michael enjoys gardening and working on his house, including installing a solar powered system to provide hot water and electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-uwyo_4-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Peter_Michael#cite_note-uwyo-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p>
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123 State Capitol
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002</p>
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