Mike Castle



























Mike Castle
Mike Castle official portrait.jpg
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Delaware's at-large district

In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2011
Preceded byTom Carper
Succeeded byJohn Carney
69th Governor of Delaware

In office
January 15, 1985 – December 31, 1992
Lieutenant
Shien Biau Woo
Dale E. Wolf
Preceded byPete du Pont
Succeeded byDale E. Wolf
20th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

In office
January 20, 1981 – January 15, 1985
GovernorPete du Pont
Preceded byJames D. McGinnis
Succeeded byShien Biau Woo

Personal details
Born
Michael Newbold Castle


(1939-07-02) July 2, 1939 (age 79)
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Jane DiSabatino
Education
Hamilton College (BS)
Georgetown University (LLB)

Michael Newbold Castle (born July 2, 1939) is an American attorney and politician who was Governor of Delaware (1985–92) and the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district (1993–2011). He is a member of the Republican Party.


The district includes the entire state of Delaware and is the oldest intact surviving district in the nation. He was the longest-serving U.S. Representative in the state's history.[1] Prior to his election to Congress, Castle served as a member of the Delaware General Assembly, starting in the State House of Representatives (1966–1967) and then followed by election to the State Senate (1968–1976). He was the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 1981 to 1985, and the 69th Governor of Delaware from 1985 to 1992.


On October 6, 2009, Castle announced his candidacy in the 2010 special election for the seat in the United States Senate held by Democrat Ted Kaufman.[2] Kaufman, appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy created by Joe Biden (who resigned to become Vice President of the United States), was not a candidate in the special election.[3] The election would determine who would fill the balance of Biden's term, which would end on January 3, 2015. In one of the most surprising election results of the 2010 campaign season, Castle was defeated in the Republican primary for the US Senate seat by Christine O'Donnell.[4] He would have been heavily favored in the general election against Democrat Chris Coons, who went on to easily beat O'Donnell by 17 percentage points.[5]


Castle has acknowledged drafting the bill which became law and created the Trillion Dollar Coin controversy by apparently authorizing the United States Department of Treasury to mint platinum coinage in any denomination.[6] Castle is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.[7]




Contents





  • 1 Early life and education


  • 2 Family


  • 3 Professional and political career


  • 4 Governor of Delaware


  • 5 U. S. House of Representatives

    • 5.1 Committee assignments



  • 6 2010 Senate campaign

    • 6.1 Town hall



  • 7 Almanac


  • 8 References


  • 9 Sources


  • 10 Images


  • 11 External links




Early life and education


Castle was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Louisa Johnston (née Bache) and James Manderson Castle, Jr.[8] One of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was Virginia Senator John W. Johnston, and Castle's fifth great-grandfathers were founding fathers Benjamin Franklin and Daniel Carroll. Castle's father was a patent lawyer for DuPont, a firm so central to the city that it was long known in Wilmington simply as "the company." After graduating from Tower Hill School in 1957, he attended Hamilton College in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Hamilton in 1961.[9] While at Hamilton, Castle was a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.[citation needed]


In 1964, he earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He was admitted to both the Delaware Bar and the Washington, D.C. Bar that same year.



Family


Michael Castle and Jane DiSabatino married on May 23, 1992; they have no children.[citation needed] Both are Roman Catholics.



Professional and political career


Following his admission to the bar, Castle returned to Wilmington and joined Connolly, Bove and Lodge, working as an associate (1964–1973) and later partner (1973–1975). A Republican, he served as Deputy Attorney General of Delaware from 1965 to 1966, and was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives in 1966. He served as a state representative for two years before winning a seat in the Delaware Senate, where he remained for eight years. He also served as minority leader from 1975 to 1976.


In 1976, Castle left the state legislature and returned to the full-time practice of law, founding his own firm with Carl Schnee (who was later nominated as U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware by President Bill Clinton in 1999). He returned to politics in 1980, when he was recruited to run for Lieutenant Governor of Delaware by Governor Pete du Pont. He defeated Democratic state senator Thomas B. Sharp, with 59% to 40% of the vote. He served from 1981 to 1985, and headed panels on education and drunk driving.



Governor of Delaware




Lt. Governor Castle (left) with Governor Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania (center) and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, July 1982.


As the hand-picked choice of the popular Governor du Pont, he easily won election as Governor of Delaware, defeating former Delaware Supreme Court Justice William T. Quillen. In the campaign, Castle was criticized for being a shadow of his mentor and only promising an extension of du Pont’s program. Delaware voters however elected him to another term in 1988 when he defeated Democrat Jacob Kreshtool by a wide margin, and is the last time a Republican won a governor election in the state. Castle served two terms, cutting the second one slightly short when he resigned to begin his first term as U.S. Representative.



U. S. House of Representatives




Mike Castle's official Congressional portrait



Committee assignments



  • Committee on Education and Labor

    • Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education (Ranking Member)

    • Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness



  • Committee on Financial Services
    • Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises

    • Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit

    • Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology


In 1992, Castle did not run again for Governor, due to constitutional term limits. The result was what became known as "the Swap." Castle ran for the seat of U.S. Representative Tom Carper and Carper ran for Governor. Delaware’s political leadership had quietly worked out the arrangement and retained the services of two very popular office holders.


Castle was first elected U.S. Representative in 1992, defeating former Lieutenant Governor Shien Biau Woo. Since then, he won election by wide margins eight times, defeating Democrats Carol Ann DeSantis in 1994, Dennis E. Williams in 1996 and 1998, Michael C. Miller in 2000 and 2002, Paul Donnelly in 2004, Dennis Spivack in 2006, and Karen Hartley-Nagle in 2008.


Castle was president of the Republican Main Street Partnership and was the co-chair of several Congressional caucuses, including the Diabetes Caucus, the Community College Caucus, the Biomedical Research Caucus and the Passenger Rail Caucus. He was also considered one of the most moderate Republicans in the U.S. House. In the wake of Tom DeLay's indictment in September 2005, liberal columnist E.J. Dionne named Castle as one of four lawmakers capable of leading an anticorruption reform of the Republican Party. Castle was a member of various moderate/liberal Republican Organizations, such as Republicans For Environmental Protection, The Republican Majority For Choice, Republicans For Choice and Christine Todd Whitman's Its My Party Too. He is pro-choice and supports some gun control measures.[10] He voted against a constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage.[11] The non-partisan National Journal gave Mike Castle an ideological composite score of 59% conservative and 41% liberal.[12]


Castle's centrist positions served him well in a state that trended increasingly Democratic during his tenure in the House. Delaware had long been reckoned as a bellwether, but has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992, due almost entirely to heavily Democratic New Castle County. At the same time, his centrist record made him the target of conservative groups such as Club for Growth, who ranked him the least conservative Republican in the U.S. House in 2008, and RemoveRINOs, who, in April 2010, named him the Ace of Spades on its most-wanted list.


In February 2004, Castle sponsored H.R. 3831 to reauthorize the assault weapons ban of 1994. The bill was co-sponsored by 11 Republican colleagues and 129 Democrats.[13] In June 2008, Rep. Mark Kirk, R-IL, introduced H.R. 6257 to reinstate the ban, and Castle was one of the bill's four Republican co-sponsors.[14] Both bills died in committee.


Castle cosponsored the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The bill proposed expanding the number of embryonic stem cell lines that are eligible for federally funded research, expecting that this funding would generate more research and ultimately greater progress in developing new treatments for a wide range of medical conditions. Presently, the only embryonic stem cell lines eligible for federal funded research were derived before August 9, 2001. This legislation removes that date restriction, along with proposing stronger ethical requirements. After successfully passing both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, it received U.S. President George W. Bush’s first presidential veto in July 2006.


In December 2010, Castle was one of fifteen Republican House members to vote in favor of repealing the United States military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on openly gay service members.[15][16]


Castle suffered two minor strokes during the 2006 campaign, but fully recovered. Considering the general Democratic sweep of other offices, he won the election comfortably, but with a greatly reduced margin over previous years. Despite the increased Democratic sweep of the 2008 election, he, unlike many Republicans, managed to increase his margin of victory, winning over Democratic challenger Karen Hartley-Nagle by 23 points. Considering his moderate profile, popularity, and long history of service to the state, his victory was not considered surprising. Castle appeared in the documentary, Keeping the Peace, which focused on Michael Berg's 'anti-war' campaign for Castle's congressional seat in 2006. It premiered at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival in 2009 and won the Audience Award.


On November 9th, 2009, Congressman Castle's District was profiled by Stephen Colbert in his segment "Better Know a District."



2010 Senate campaign



In 2010, Congressman Castle ran to be the Republican candidate to fill the seat of former Senator Joe Biden, who had become Vice President on January 20, 2009. Castle was defeated in the Republican primary on September 14, 2010, by Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party favorite. The primary drew 57,000 voters, a small slice of the overall electorate. After the primary, Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind twice polled Delaware voters, running a hypothetical match-up between Castle and the Democratic candidate, Chris Coons; in it, Castle beat Coons by a 21-point margin (54%–34%) and also had a favorable rating of 48% compared to O'Donnell's 34%.[17] Castle refused to support O'Donnell in the Senate campaign against Coons.[18] Coons went on to defeat O'Donnell decisively in the general election.


In June 2010, Castle was one of only two Republicans to vote in favor of the DISCLOSE Act, intended to limit spending on political campaigns by corporations in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The bill requires added disclosure for political spending by corporations and prohibits some corporate political spending.[19]



Town hall


A town hall style meeting organized by Castle to discuss health care reform with constituents[20] was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline "VIDEO: Congressman's town hall erupts over Obama birth certificate...".[21] The story was linked to a tape[22] documenting a few minutes of the event and hosted on YouTube. The incident sparked discussion of the topic in relation to the moderate Republican congressman and commentators' surprise at the audience reaction.[23][24][25] Castle was heckled and booed after calmly responding to a protester, "If you’re referring to the President there, he is a citizen of the United States."[20] The incident has become a focus of attention[26] in some[27] evaluations of the period.



Reporting in the international press on the explosion of interest in the subject focused on the central role of the Castle incident. The British newspaper The Guardian reported:


But the real impact has been a video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits on the web (in which Congressman) Mike Castle, address(es) a town hall meeting on health care in Delaware last month when a woman suddenly stands up waving a bunch of papers...The encounter was a warning to Republican officials how far the conspiracy theory has permeated parts of their party.[28]



Almanac


Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. Members of the Delaware General Assembly take office the second Tuesday of January. State Senators have a four-year term and State Representatives have a two-year term. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor take office the third Tuesday of January and have four-year terms. U.S. Representatives take office January 3 and have a two-year term.[citation needed]










































Delaware General Assembly
(sessions while Governor)

Year

Assembly


Senate Majority

President
pro tempore



House Majority

Speaker
1985–1986

133rd


Democratic
Richard S. Cordrey


Republican
Charles L. Hebner
1987–1988

134th


Democratic
Richard S. Cordrey


Republican
B. Bradford Barnes
Terry R. Spence
1989–1990

135th


Democratic
Richard S. Cordrey


Republican

Terry R. Spence
1991–1992

136th


Democratic
Richard S. Cordrey


Republican

Terry R. Spence




































Public Offices

Office

Type

Location

Began office

Ended office

notes

State Representative

Legislature

Dover
January 10, 1967
January 14, 1969


State Senator

Legislature

Dover
January 14, 1969
January 11, 1977


Lt. Governor

Executive

Dover
January 20, 1981
January 15, 1985


Governor

Executive

Dover
January 15, 1985
December 31, 1992
resigned

U.S. Representative

Legislature

Washington
January 3, 1993
January 3, 2011





































Delaware General Assembly service

Dates

Assembly

Chamber

Majority

Governor

District
1967–1968
124th

State House

Democratic

Charles L. Terry, Jr.

6th
1969–1970
125th

State Senate

Republican

Russell W. Peterson

1st
1971–1972
126th

State Senate

Republican

Russell W. Peterson

1st
1973–1974
127th

State Senate

Republican

Sherman W. Tribbitt

1st
1975–1976
128th

State Senate

Republican

Sherman W. Tribbitt

1st






































































United States Congressional service

Dates

Congress

Chamber

Majority

President

Committees

Class/District
1993–1995

103rd

U.S. House

Democratic

Bill Clinton

Education, Financial Services

at-large
1995–1997

104th

U.S. House

Republican

Bill Clinton
Education, Financial Services

at-large
1997–1999

105th

U.S. House

Republican

Bill Clinton
Education, Financial Services

at-large
1999–2001

106th

U.S. House

Republican

Bill Clinton
Education, Financial Services

at-large
2001–2003

107th

U.S. House

Republican

George W. Bush
Education, Financial Services

at-large
2003–2005

108th

U.S. House

Republican

George W. Bush
Education, Financial Services

at-large
2005–2007

109th

U.S. House

Republican

George W. Bush
Education, Financial Services

at-large
2007–2009

110th

U.S. House

Democratic

George W. Bush
Education, Financial Services

at-large
2009–2011

111th

U.S. House

Democratic

Barack Obama
Education, Financial Services

at-large



































































































































































































Election results

Year

Office

Election


Subject

Party

Votes

%


Opponent

Party

Votes

%
1980

Lt. Governor

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
128,827
59%

Thomas B. Sharp

Democratic
88,224
40%
1984

Governor

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
135,250
55%

William T. Quillen

Democratic
108,315
45%
1988

Governor

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
169,733
71%

Jacob Kreshtool

Democratic
70,236
29%

1992

U.S. Representative

Primary

Michael N. Castle

Republican
18,377
56%

Janet C. Rzewnicki

Republican
9,812
30%

1992

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
153,037
55%


Shien Biau Woo

Democratic
117,426
43%

1994

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
137,945
71%

Carol Ann DeSantis

Democratic
51,793
27%

1996

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
185,577
70%

Dennis E. Williams

Democratic
73,258
27%

1998

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
119,811
66%

Dennis E. Williams

Democratic
57,446
32%

2000

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
211,797
68%

Michael C. Miller

Democratic
96,488
31%

2002

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
164,605
72%

Michael C. Miller

Democratic
61,011
27%

2004

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
245,978
69%

Paul Donnelly

Democratic
105,716
30%

2006

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
143,897
57%


Dennis Spivack

Democratic
97,555
39%

2008

U.S. Representative

General

Michael N. Castle

Republican
235,419
61.1%

Karen Hartley-Nagle

Democratic
146,399
38.0%

2010

U.S. Senator

Primary

Michael N. Castle

Republican
27,021
46.9%

Christine O' Donnell

Republican
30,561
53.1%

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References




  1. ^ "Rep. Mike Castle announces run for U.S. Senate". WHYY. 2009-10-06. Archived from the original on 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2009-12-15..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Delaware GOP Congressman to Run for Biden's Former Senate Seat". FOX News. 2009-10-06.


  3. ^ Brumfield, Sarah (2008-11-25). "Longtime Biden aide picked to fill his Senate seat". FOX News. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-02-01.


  4. ^ "Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary". The Washington Post.


  5. ^ "Election 2010: Delaware Senate". Rasmussenreports.com. Retrieved 2011-01-04.


  6. ^ "Treasury: We won't mint a platinum coin to sidestep the debt ceiling". Washington Post. Retrieved January 12, 2013.


  7. ^ "ReFormers Caucus". Issue One. Retrieved 2017-06-16.


  8. ^ Barone, Michael; Richard E. Cohen; Grant Ujifusa (2008). The Almanac of American Politics. Washington, D.C.: National Journal Group. p. 370.


  9. ^ "Delaware Congressman, Alumnus Mike Castle to Deliver Commencement Address". Hamilton College. Retrieved July 11, 2014.


  10. ^ News, A. B. C. (2010-09-14). "Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party". ABC News. Retrieved 2018-07-08.


  11. ^ Issues2000.org. "Michael Castle on the Issues". www.ontheissues.org. Retrieved 2018-07-08.


  12. ^ "Mike Castle's Rating and Endorsements". votesmart.org.


  13. ^ H.R. 3831


  14. ^ H.R. 6257


  15. ^ Chris Geidner, House Passes DADT Repeal Bill Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine., Metro Weekly (December 15, 2010).


  16. ^ House Vote 638 – Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Archived 2016-01-18 at the Wayback Machine., New York Times (December 15, 2010).


  17. ^ "O'Donnell Winning Tea Party, Losing Delaware" (PDF). Publicmind.fdu.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-16.


  18. ^ David Catanese (2010-09-15). "Mike Castle Won't Endorse Christine O'Donnell". Politico.


  19. ^ von Spakovsky, Hans A. (2010-06-24). "The Fight over the DISCLOSE Act Is Far from Over". National Review. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2010-06-25.


  20. ^ ab [1] Archived July 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.


  21. ^ "DRUDGE REPORT 2011". Drudgereport.com. Retrieved 2011-01-04.


  22. ^ "Mike Castle on Barack H. Obama Birth certificate". YouTube. 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2011-01-04.


  23. ^ "Hardball with Chris Matthews". MSNBC. Retrieved 2011-01-04.


  24. ^ Rick PerlsteinJuly 21, 2009 (2009-07-21). "Feeling the Wrath of Bill O'Reilly's Army". Newsweek. Retrieved 2011-01-04.


  25. ^ Becker, Bernie (July 22, 2009). "The Early Word: Prime-Time Night". The New York Times.


  26. ^ [2][dead link]


  27. ^ [3]


  28. ^ McGreal, Chris (July 28, 2009). "Anti-Obama 'birther movement' gathers steam". The Guardian. London, UK.


  29. ^ "castle". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2017-06-16.



Sources



  • Barone, Michael; Richard E. Cohen (2005). Almanac of American Politics. Washington: National Journal Group. ISBN 0-89234-112-2.


  • Boyer, William W. (2000). Governing Delaware. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 1-892142-23-6.


  • Cohen, Celia (2002). Only in Delaware, Politics and Politicians in the First State. Newark, Delaware: Grapevine Publishing.


  • Hoffecker, Carol E. (2004). Democracy in Delaware. Wilmington, Delaware: Cedar Tree Books. ISBN 1-892142-23-6.


  • Martin, Roger A. (1995). Memoirs of the Senate. Newark, DE: Roger A. Martin.


Images



  • Profile, Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress; accessed June 16, 2017.


External links







  • Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress


  • Profile at Vote Smart


  • Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission

  • Delaware’s Governors

  • Profile at SourceWatch

  • News Meat
















Political offices
Preceded by
James D. McGinnis

Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
1981–1985
Succeeded by
Shien Biau Woo
Preceded by
Pete du Pont

Governor of Delaware
1985–1992
Succeeded by
Dale E. Wolf
Party political offices
Preceded by
Pete du Pont

Republican nominee for Governor of Delaware
1984, 1988
Succeeded by
Gary Scott
Preceded by
Thomas Kean

Chair of the Republican Governors Association
1987–1988
Succeeded by
Mike Hayden

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Tom Carper

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Delaware's at-large congressional district

1993–2011
Succeeded by
John Carney









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