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Jared Polis Biography

Jared Polis is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 12, 1975 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. A Democratic congressman from Colorado, who was the first openly gay person to win a congressional race in 2008. He was a major sponsor of the Student Non-Discrimination Act which sought to protect LGBT students from bullying at school.

With Senator He introduced the 2011 Race to the Top Act with Senator Joe Lieberman., he introduced the 2011 Race to the Top Act.

Jared Schutz Polis (/ˈ p oʊ l ɪ s / ; born May 12, 1975) is an American politician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served one term on the Colorado State Board of Education from 2001 to 2007 and five terms as the United States Representative from Colorado’s 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2019. During his time in Congress, he was the only Democratic member of the libertarian conservative Liberty Caucus. He was elected governor of Colorado in 2018, defeating Republican nominee Walker Stapleton.

Polis, along with representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA), sponsored Aaron’s Law, in the wake of the suicide of computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz, (the co-founder of Reddit), who was facing computer and wire fraud charges and more than 30 years in prison and fines of over $1 million for violating the terms of service for illegally downloading academic journal articles from the digital library JSTOR. The proposed bill would exclude terms of service violations from the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and from the wire fraud statute. Polis said that the charges brought on by US Attorney Carmen Ortiz were “ridiculous and trumped-up,” and that “It’s absurd that he was made a scapegoat. I would hope that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

With Marlon Reis, he has a son named Caspian Julius.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2000 Polis was elected at-large as a member of the Colorado State Board of Education and served a single six-year term until January 2007, when the district was eliminated. His election was one of the closest in Colorado history, as he defeated incumbent Ben Alexander by 90 votes out of 1.6 million cast. During his term Polis served as both chairman and vice chairman of the board.

Jared Polis Net Worth

Jared Polis is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jared Polis's net worth $400 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He founded an online greeting card site with his parents. It was sold three years later, for $780 million.

He is the first homosexual parent in Congressional History and caucuses with the LGBT Equality Caucus.

Polis is the son of Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz, founders of greeting card and book publisher Blue Mountain Arts. He was born at Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado in 1975. He lived in San Diego, California as a high school student, graduating from La Jolla Country Day School in three years with multiple honors. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in politics in 1996 after completing a 157-page long senior thesis, titled “Paradigm Shift: Politics in the Information Age”, under the supervision of Carol Swain. While a student at Princeton, Polis served as communications director of the undergraduate student government and was involved in other campus organizations such as Model Congress and the Princeton Juggling Club. In 2000, he legally changed his surname to his mother’s to raise awareness for a fundraiser and because he simply “liked it better”.

In 2000 Polis founded the Jared Polis Foundation, whose mission is to “create opportunities for success by supporting educators, increasing access to technology, and strengthening our community.” Its main programs are the annual Teacher Recognition Awards; the Community Computer Connection program, which refurbishes and donates more than 3,500 computers a year to schools and nonprofit organizations; and the semi-annual Jared Polis Foundation Education Report. Polis has also founded two charter schools, one with multiple campuses across three states and a post-secondary school, the New America College, for at-risk students. In 2004 he established the New America School, a charter high school that primarily serves older immigrant youth ages 16–21 and has three campuses in Colorado, two in New Mexico and one in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2005 Polis and Urban Peak co-founded the Academy of Urban Learning in Denver to help youth at risk of becoming homeless or living in unstable living conditions.

In February 1998 Polis founded ProFlowers, an online florist, in La Jolla, California. In December of that year, economist Arthur Laffer began advising Polis and joined ProFlowers as a Director. ProFlowers, later renamed Provide Commerce, Inc., went public on NASDAQ as PRVD on December 17, 2003. In 2005 Provide Commerce was acquired by media conglomerate Liberty Media Corporation for $477 million.

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Polis co-founded American Information Systems (AIS), Inc., while still in college. AIS was an internet access provider and was sold in 1998. In 1996 he co-founded a free electronic greeting card website, bluemountain.com, which was sold to [email protected] in 1999 for $430 million in stock and $350 million in cash.

Polis was named Outstanding Philanthropist for the 2006 National Philanthropy Day in Colorado. He has received many awards, including the Boulder Daily Camera’s 2007 Pacesetter Award in Education; the Kauffman Foundation Community Award; the Denver consul general of Mexico “Ohtli”; the Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Humanitarian Award; and the Anti-Defamation League’s inaugural Boulder Community Builder Award.

Who is Jared Polis Dating?

According to our records, Jared Polis is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Jared Polis’s is not dating anyone.

In 2006 Polis served as co-chair of Coloradans for Clean Government, a committee that supported Amendment 41, a citizen-initiated ballot measure to ban gifts by registered lobbyists to government officials, establish a $50 annual restriction on gift-giving from non-lobbyists, establish a two-year cooling-off period before former state legislators and statewide elected officials can begin lobbying, and create an independent ethics commission. In November 2006, 62.3% of Colorado voters approved the “Ethics in Government” constitutional amendment.

Facts & Trivia

Jared Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jared Polis celebrates birthday on May 12 of every year.

Polis and other investors founded TechStars in Boulder, Colorado in 2006.

What does Jared Polis do?

Professions

Where was Jared Polis born?

Boulder, CO

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When was Jared Polis born?

May 12, 1975 (age 47 years)

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