Jay Nixon Biography, Age, Net worth, Governor, Public defender, Pardons, State park

Jay Nixon Biography

Jay Nixon (Born Jeremiah Wilson) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 55th Governor of Missouri from 2009 to 2017 as a member of the Democratic Party. Nixon was first elected Governor in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. Prior to his governorship, he served as the state’s 40th Attorney General from 1993 to 2009. After leaving public office he joined the Dowd Bennett law firm in St. Louis.

He grew up in De Soto, Missouri, where he was born. His mother, Betty Lea (née Willson), was a teacher and president of the local school board, and his father, Jeremiah “Jerry” Nixon, served as the city’s mayor. One of his paternal three great-grandfathers, Abraham Jonas, was an early Jewish settler in Illinois and friend of former President Abraham Lincoln (one of Nixon’s paternal great-grandmothers was Jewish, though Nixon is Methodist). His great-great-grandfather Charles Henry Jonas was the brother of Democratic U.S. Senator Benjamin F. Jonas of Louisiana and another, James Oscar Nixon, was a brother of U.S. Representative John Thompson Nixon of New Jersey.

Jay Nixon Age

Nixon was born on February 13, 1956, in De Soto, Missouri, United States. He is 63 years old as of 2019.

Jay Nixon Net Worth

The estimated Net Worth of J Michael Nixon is at least $91.8 Million dollars as of 30 May 2018. Jay has made over 14 trades of the Installed Building Products stock since 2016, according to the Form 4 filed with the SEC. Most recently he sold 61,398 units of IBP stock worth $3,737,296 on 30 May 2018.

The largest trade he’s ever made was selling 100,000 units of Installed Building Products stock on 27 February 2017 worth over $4,602,000. On average, J trades about 29,420 units every 35 days since 2015. As of 30 May 2018, he still owns at least 1,353,658 units of Installed Building Products stock.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has bought a house in University City with an eye on practicing law or going into business after he leaves office in January.

Governor Jay Nixon

Elections

2008 election
Governor Matt Blunt announced on January 22, 2008, that he would not seek a second term. By the filing deadline on March 25, 2008, three Democratic and five Republican candidates had filed.

2012 election
Nixon defeated Republican Dave Spence to win a second term in 2012, running on a platform of fiscal responsibility and bipartisanship.

Appointments
Gov. Nixon appointed Boone County Treasurer Nicole Galloway after the death of Tom Schweich to the post of Missouri State Auditor in 2015. Galloway later won a full term as Missouri State Auditor in the 2018 general election. Following the defeat of Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in the 2018 U.S. Senate election, Galloway remains the only female statewide elected official and the only Democrat in statewide office in Missouri.

Budget
Throughout his time in office, Nixon made budget restrictions to account for lower-than-expected revenues, or statutory changes affecting the budget. Upon taking office, Nixon “began cutting spending almost immediately and has made repeated reductions to the budgets passed by the Legislature in subsequent years.”

In 2010, Nixon was called the state’s budget “cutter-in-chief” by the Associated Press for his efforts to reduce spending and right-size state government.

Economy
After taking office during the Great Recession, Nixon focused on creating jobs, investing in education and strengthening the state’s economy while keeping the budget in balance. From November 2015 to November 2016, Missouri added 57,100 jobs, more than all eight of its neighboring states.

Aiming to revitalize the state’s automotive manufacturing industry, Nixon created an Automotive Jobs Task Force and in 2011 called a special session of the General Assembly to pass the Missouri Manufacturing Jobs Act. On October 21, 2011, Ford confirmed that it would make a $1.1 billion investment in its Kansas City Assembly Plant and add 1,600 jobs at the facility. On November 4, 2011, General Motors announced plans for a $380 million investment in its Wentzville plant outside St. Louis.

Jay Nixon Public Defender

A Cole County Circuit Court judge ruled that the state’s top public defender doesn’t have the authority to appoint the governor, or any private counsel, to argue a case. At issue was a decision earlier this month from Michael Barrett, the state’s lead public defender, to order Nixon to represent an indigent defendant, citing a provision of the state law allowing him to delegate such a job to “any member of the state bar in Missouri” in extraordinary circumstances.

Fed up with an underfunded public defender system, he picked the most high-profile lawyer in Missouri: Nixon, a former Missouri attorney general who has had an active law license since 1981, and the person Barrett said is most responsible for the cuts to his department’s budget. The man Nixon was appointed to defend is John Quehl, a Jefferson City resident facing assault charges for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Jay Nixon Pardons

Nixon’s office announced that he’d granted the largest single block pardons in his governorship, wiping away the criminal convictions of fourteen people. All had completed their sentences, rejoined society and stayed out of trouble. Only two had ever served prison terms: Ralph Smith did two years after being convicted of grand larceny in Greene County in 1954. John Wynne was convicted in 1963 of second-degree burglary in Grundy County and served a nine-month sentence before being paroled.

Jay Nixon State Park

Jay Nixon State Park is a state park in Reynolds County, Missouri, that was announced by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in January 2017. The park is named for governor Jay Nixon under whom several new Missouri state parks were added.

Relief map of the park and the immediate area
At the time of the park’s announcement, there were no facilities in the park, and it could only be accessed via the Ozark Trail. After initially announcing the park open, though largely inaccessible, the park’s website was updated to say that as of February 2017, it is closed with no access.

The name of the new park has been controversial, and on January 12, 2017, Missouri state senator Gary Romine and state representative Paul Fitzwater filed bills in their respective chambers to rename the park Proffitt Mountain State, Park

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Official Websites
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