Mark R. Warner Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American politician and the current governor of Virginia.Warner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and raised in Vernon, Connecticut, where he graduated from Rockville High School. He then attended George Washington University, and in 1977 became the first person in his family to graduate from college. He then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1980.
Before becoming Governor, Warner was involved in telecommunications, Information Technology (IT), educational opportunities, and his main profession, law. He managed Douglas Wilder's successful 1989 campaign and unsuccessfully ran for United States Senate in 1996 against Republican Senator John Warner (no relation).
Warner, a fiscally conservative Democrat, ran for Governor in 2001 after years of slowly building up a powerbase in rural Virginia and he defeated the Republican candidate, then state Attorney General Mark Earley by a margin of almost 100,000 votes. Warner's term as Governor has been dominated by his struggle with Virginia's massive debt, inherited from the previous Republican governor James S. Gilmore III. He is chairman of the National Governors Association and chairman of the Southern Governor's Association.
Warner's popularity paid off for the Democrats, when in 2003 they made a net gain in the Virginia House of Delegates for the first time in generations (although the House remained under Republican control).
After the 2004 presidential election defeat, Warner has been regarded by some Democrats as a Bill Clinton-like figure the party could rally around in the 2008 presidential election.