Michael Bradley Enzi (R)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Senator, Wyoming
- Birth Date: Feb. 1, 1944
- Occupation: Accounting Manager
- Religion: Presbyterian
- Web site: http://enzi.senate.gov/
Education
- George Washington University, BA
- University of Denver, MBA
Mike Enzi was born in Bremerton, Wash., where his father served with the U.S. Navy during World War II. His family moved to Thermopolis, Wyo., and then to Sheridan, Wyo., where Enzi completed his elementary and high school educations.
He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from George Washington University in 1966 and a master's of business administration from Denver University in 1968.
After marrying his wife Diana in 1969, the two moved to Gillette, Wyo., to open the NZ shoe store, opening a similar store in Sheridan a short time later. The couple operated the store for 25 years before Enzi took a job as the accounting manager, computer programmer and safety trainer for Dunbar Well Service in Gillette.
He was the youngest person ever elected as Gillette's mayor in 1974 and he served in that position for eight years.
He won his first term in Wyoming's House in 1986, moving to the state Senate in 1991.
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, replacing the retiring Sen. Alan Simpson.
Enzi and his wife have three children.
