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Tommy Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin |
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From 1987
to 2001, Thompson served as the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, having been
elected to an unprecedented four terms.
Thompson's most noted initiatives during his nearly 14 years as governor of
Wisconsin were his Wisconsin Works welfare reform and school choice
programs. In 1990, Thompson enacted the nation's first parental
school-choice program, allowing low-income Milwaukee families to send
children to the private or public school of their choice. He also created
the BadgerCare program, designed to provide health coverage to those
families whose employers don't provide health insurance but make too much
money to qualify for Medicaid. Through the federal waiver program, Thompson
helped replicate this program in several states when he became Secretary of
Health and Human Services.
As Wisconsin's chief executive, he held leadership positions in several
national and regional organizations. From 1998 to 1999, he served as
president of the CSG and, with the organization's chairman, Senator Kenneth
McClintock, the nonvoting member from Puerto Rico, led a top-level
delegation to the People's Republic of China. An avid motorcyclist, Thompson
was known to encourage colleagues to join him on motorcycle tours of
Wisconsin whenever he and his wife, Sue Ann, hosted fellow governors.
Thompson left office when he was appointed by President George W. Bush as
HHS Secretary.
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