Legislator Details
Vital Records Information:
Marital Information:
married Laurie, mayor of Menominee; children: Ken & Bart Jr. Bart Jr.died in May 2000.
Number of Children: 2
Background
Education:
graduated from Gladstone High School, Gladstone, MI, 1970;
AA, Northwestern Michigan Community College, 1972;
BS in criminal justice, Saginaw Valley State College, University Center, MI, 1977; JD, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI 1981.
Biographical Sketch:
Patrolman, Escanaba, MI, police dept., 1972-1973; trooper, Michigan dept. of state police, 1973-1984. A resident of Menominee, MI. Prior to joining Washington, D.C.-based Venable as a lobbyist and a partner in the firm’s legislative and government affairs group in 2011, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Notable Facts:
Elected 6 consecutive Congresses 1993-present as of 4/2003. Worked to ban oil drilling beneath the Great Lakes & fought water diversions. Stupak was injured in the line of duty & was medically retired from the state police in 1984.