- Born
- Birth nameMichael Dale Huckabee
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Mike Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the United States Republican presidential primaries in both 2008 and 2016.
He was the host of the talk show Huckabee (2008), which ran on the Fox News Channel from 2008-2017, and runs on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, simulcast on Newsmax TV. He paused the show in January 2015 in order to explore a potential bid for the presidency. From April 2012 through December 2013, he hosted a daily radio program, The Mike Huckabee Show, on weekday afternoons for Cumulus Media Networks. Huckabee is the author of several best-selling books, an ordained Southern Baptist minister noted for his evangelical views, a musician, and a public speaker. He was also a political commentator on The Huckabee Report.
In the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, Huckabee won the 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses and finished second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won, behind John McCain and Mitt Romney. Huckabee ran again for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election, but lost to businessman Donald Trump. His daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, served two years as President Trump's White House Press Secretary.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpouseJanet McCain(May 25, 1974 - present) (3 children)
- Children
- Was a fellow seminary student with Rick Warren at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Mike dropped out of seminary after one year in order to take a job in Christian broadcasting.
- Lost over 110 pounds on advice from his doctors after learning in 2003 that he had Type 2 diabetes.
- Father, with Janet Huckabee, of three children: David Huckabee, John Mark Huckabee and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
- Ordained Baptist minister.
- Born in Hope, Arkansas, birthplace of one of his predecessors as Governor and 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton.
- If money and celebrity are the criteria to elect a President, then we can elect Paris Hilton. (Said in a speech in Treynor, Iowa, on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2007).
- Even if we lose elections, we should not lose our honor, and that is more important than the Republican party.
- I believe most Americans want their next president to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off. (Campaign speech, January, 2008)
- [2011, on the Osama Bin Laden killing] It has taken a long time for this monster to be brought to justice. Welcome to hell, bin Laden. Let us all hope that his demise will serve notice to Islamic radicals the world over that the United States will be relentless is tracking down and terminating those who would inflict terror, mayhem and death on any of our citizens.
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