Biography:

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.

Profile:

Mike Enzi keeps a relatively low profile in the Washington scene, staying out of the political fray. He is a staunch conservative but often works with Democrats on legislation. In 2006, he worked with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and other Democrats to write the first major overhaul of mine safety in three decades. He also has developed a 10-point health care reform plan which he says has broad bipartisan support — and was even borrowed from by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

An accountant by trade, Enzi is a fervent supporter of small businesses and will regularly champion their causes. He was a key architect of GOP support for the corporate responsibility law, landmark legislation signed by President George W. Bush in 2002 following a wave of corporate scandals, including Enron and WorldCom.

Enzi had negotiated with Sen. Paul Sarbanes, the Maryland Democrat who authored the bill, to win changes in provisions of the bill that Enzi said threatened to put small accounting firms out of business.

Enzi also sponsored legislation in 2006 to help small businesses provide health care to employees. But the legislation failed after Democrats said it didn't provide adequate health care coverage.

During debate on the health-care legislation, Enzi's wife, Diana, was diagnosed with malignant tumor in her colon and had it surgically removed.

Enzi has also been a strong supporter of labeling meat products with the country of origin and reform of the Endangered Species Act, both popular among livestock producers in Wyoming.

Enzi entered politics in 1974 when he ran for mayor of Gillette, Wyo., at the urging of U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson. More than 20 years later, after serving in the state Legislature, he succeeded his mentor. In 1996, Enzi was elected to the seat vacated by Simpson, easily defeating former Wyoming Secretary of State Kathy Karpan.

"I'm excited to get to work on tax relief for families, balancing the budget, reducing regulations for small business and creating jobs in Wyoming," he said at the time.

In the Senate, Enzi has been active in issues involving opening borders to greater trade, rewriting workplace safety rules and setting new business standards.

Most of his positions — such as those weakening workplace safety oversight — are considered friendly to business. Enzi supported a balanced budget amendment but voted in support of President Bush's tax cuts, which have been blamed for negating four years of budget surpluses.

An elder in the Presbyterian Church, Enzi opposes abortion. He is a supporter of the National Rifle Association. He follows general conservative lines of lower taxes and less government intrusion in local issues and daily lives.

Enzi holds positions on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Budget; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship committees.

The American Conservative Union gave Enzi's 2007 voting record 96 points of 100. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave him 10 points.

Campaigns:

A former mayor of Gillette, Wyo., Mike Enzi first won a U.S. Senate seat in 1996, winning with 54 percent of the vote over Kathy Karpan.In the 2002 general election, Enzi defeated Democrat Joyce Corcoran with 73 percent of the vote.Enzi first was elected to the Wyoming House in 1986 and won re-election in 1988 and 1990. In 1991, he was appointed to fill the uncompleted state Senate term of John Perry, who moved out of the county. He was elected to a full four-year term in 1992.It was widely speculated early in 2008 that Enzi would not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate after he was passed over for a second time for a seat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Enzi confirmed after announcing his re-election campaign that he'd seriously thought about not running.

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