Douglas Anthony Ducey Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the 23rd and current governor of Arizona. He previously was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, a chain of ice cream parlors based in Scottsdale, Arizona. A member of the Republican Party, he was Arizona State Treasurer from 2011 to 2015. On November 4, 2014 he was elected to the governorship; he took office on January 5, 2015 and was reelected in 2018.
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Douglas Anthony Ducey Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the 23rd and current governor of Arizona. He previously was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, a chain of ice cream parlors based in Scottsdale, Arizona. A member of the Republican Party, he was Arizona State Treasurer from 2011 to 2015. On November 4, 2014 he was elected to the governorship; he took office on January 5, 2015. He was reelected in 2018. During his campaign, press accounts revealed that some of his relatives in Toledo were involved in organized crime in Ohio. An investigation found no evidence that Ducesy profited from or engaged in criminal activity. He declined to comment on the reports during his campaign. He is the first state to require high school students to pass the citizenship test in order to graduate. On September 4, 2018, it was announced that Ducedy had appointed former U.S. Senator John S. Kyl to the Senate seat that was vacated upon the death of S. John Kyl in March 2013. He has also served as the chairman of Arizona’s State Board of Investment and State Loan Commission, and as the state’s surveyor general and a members of the State Land Selection Board. He also serves as the western region vice president for the National Association of State Treasurers, and was the president of the Western StateTreasurers’ Association. He graduated from Arizona State University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance. After graduating from ASU, he joined Procter & Gamble and began a career in sales and marketing.
He and his business partner sold the company in 2007, Cold Stone had more than 1,400 locations in the United States and ten other countries. After the company’s sale to Kahala, he became the lead investor and served as chairman of the board for iMemories from 2008 to 2012. In March 2015, he signed a USD 9. 1 billion budget that eliminated the state’s USD 1. 5 billion budget deficit by reducing spending without instituting a tax increase. On April 6, 2017, DuceY signed a major school expansion bill that requires doctors to care for babies born alive during abortions. He signed a bill that would have excluded livestock from an amendment to an animal cruelty law that would. have prohibited police departments from establishing quotas for traffic citations for traffic offenses. He won the Republican nomination in the August primary and was subsequently endorsed by the outgoing governor, Jan Brewer, along with Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, and the Republicans in Arizona’s U. S. House delegation. He defeated Democrat Fred DuVal and Libertarian Barry Hess in the November 4 general election. He received the endorsement of numerous conservative leaders, including Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, as well as Governor Scott Walker and former Senator Jon Kyl. He moved to Arizona to attend Arizona University while working at Hensley & Co. while working for the Anheuser-Busch distributor owned by the family of Cindy McCain.
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