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2008 Status: Term-limited
Campaign Website
Biography:
Republican, of Kalamazoo County; born October 9, 1943; graduate,
Kalamazoo
Christian High School; graduate, bachelor’s degree in business, Western
Michigan
University; wife, Nancy; children, Lisa Ambrosio and Reverend Jeff
Wenke; owner,
Wenke Greenhouses in Kalamazoo and SunBelt Greenhouses in Douglas, GA
which
together are among the nation’s top ten producers of bedding plants;
served as a
Kalamazoo County Commissioner for eight years and was elected chairman
for
three years; served on the board of Kalamazoo Valley Plant Growers
Cooperative for
fourteen years, two years as president; partner, Michigan Grower
Products, a soil
mixing business in Galesburg, Michigan; elected to the House of
Representatives,
2002.
(Michigan
Manual)
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