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  Schwarzenegger, Arnold
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AffiliationRepublican  
<-  2006-01-01  
 
NameArnold Schwarzenegger
Address
Brentwood, Los Angeles, California , United States
EmailNone
Websitehttp://gov.ca.gov/
Born July 30, 1947 (76 years)
ContributorClassical Liberal
Last ModifedJuan Croniqueur
Jul 30, 2023 12:51am
Tags Divorced - Catholic -
InfoAn Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and Republican politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the 38th Governor of California on October 7, 2003 in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. He was subsequently re-elected to a second term in 2006.

Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria, a town bordering the Styrian capital, Graz, and christened Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. As a boy, Schwarzenegger played many sports, but discovered his passion for bodybuilding when in his mid-teens, his soccer coach took the team for weight training.

Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian army in 1965, to fulfill the one-year service requirement expected at the time of all 18 year old Austrian males. During that year he snuck off the base to compete in his first bodybuilding competition, the Mr. Junior Europe, where he won first place.

Schwarzenegger moved to the United States in September of 1968, with little money or knowledge of the English language.

Nicknamed "The Austrian Oak" in his body building days, and more recently "The Governator" (a portmanteau of Governor and Terminator, after the blockbuster film roles), Schwarzenegger as a young man gained widespread attention as a highly successful bodybuilder, and later gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film star.

His first political appointment was to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, on which he served from 1990 to 1993. He was nominated by George H. W. Bush, who dubbed him "Conan the Republican". He later served as Chairman for the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor Pete Wilson.

Governor Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver have four children - Katherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher.


JOB APPROVAL POLLS
DateFirmApproveDisapproveDon't Know
12/10/2010-12/12/2010 Survey USA 19.00% ( 4.0) 78.00% ( 3.0) 3.00% ( 1.0)
10/21/2010-10/23/2010 Public Policy Polling 25.00% ( 5.0) 63.00% ( 6.0) 12.00% ( 0.0)
09/19/2010-09/26/2010 Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) 28.00% ( 4.0) 64.00% ( 0.0) 8.00% ( 4.0)
09/20/2010-09/20/2010 Rasmussen Reports 31.00% ( 1.0) 66.00% ( 0.0) 4.00% ( 3.0)
09/14/2010-09/16/2010 Public Policy Polling 20.00% ( 1.0) 69.00% ( 2.0) 12.00% ( 2.0)
09/10/2010-09/12/2010 Survey USA 15.00% ( 2.0) 81.00% ( 0.0) 4.00% ( 2.0)
09/06/2010-09/06/2010 Rasmussen Reports 32.00% ( 4.0) 66.00% ( 5.0) 1.00% ( 0.0)
07/23/2010-07/25/2010 Public Policy Polling 19.00% ( 1.0) 71.00% ( 7.0) 10.00% ( 6.0)
07/16/2010-07/18/2010 Survey USA 17.00% ( 6.0) 81.00% ( 9.0) 2.00% ( 3.0)
07/12/2010-07/12/2010 Rasmussen Reports 28.00% ( 2.0) 71.00% ( 4.0) 1.00% ( 2.0)
FAVORABILITY POLLS
DateFirmFavorableUnfavorableDon't Know
06/03/2011-06/13/2011 Field Poll 20.00% ( 0.0) 75.00% ( 0.0) 5.00% ( 0.0)

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NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Dec 29, 2021 06:30pm News Schwarzenegger and Shriver divorce final after 10 years  Article RBH 
Jun 29, 2018 09:00pm Video Arnold Schwarzenegger mocks Trump's energy policy as outdated in new video  Article RP 
Jun 18, 2011 09:00pm Poll Poll: Arnold Schwarzenegger reviled in California  Article Jason 
May 17, 2011 06:00am News Schwarzenegger fathered child with household staff member: report   Article Monsieur 
May 09, 2011 10:00pm General Schwarzenegger and wife, Maria Shriver, separating  Article COSDem 
Feb 10, 2011 07:00pm General It's Official: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Returning To Acting  Article COSDem 

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FAMILY
Wife Maria Shriver Apr 26, 1986-Dec 28, 2021
Father In-Law Sargent Shriver 1915-2011
Mother In-Law Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver 1921-2009

INFORMATION LINKS
RACES
  11/07/2006 CA Governor Won 55.88% (+16.98%)
  06/06/2006 CA Governor - R Primary Won 89.99% (+86.41%)
  10/07/2003 CA Governor Recall Won 48.58% (+17.11%)
SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN
  03/10/2021 EPA Administrator Lost 0.00% (-66.00%)
  06/05/2018 CA US Senate - Open Primary Lost 0.00% (-44.18%)
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CA Proposition 14 - Top Two Primaries Act - Jun 08, 2010 YES Yes
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