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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Address | Brentwood, Los Angeles, California , United States |
Email | None |
Website | http://gov.ca.gov/ |
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July 30, 1947
(76 years)
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Contributor | Classical Liberal |
Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur Jul 30, 2023 12:51am |
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Info | An 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.
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