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Richard Porter
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| Richard Porter | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Illinois |
| Role: | National Committeeman |
| Location: | Illinois |
| Education: | •Middlebury College •University of Chicago Law School |
Richard Porter was first elected to serve as the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Illinois in 2014.[1][2]
Career
Education
Porter attended Middlebury College, where he earned a B.A. in philosophy and Russian history in 1981. He then went on to attend the University of Chicago Law School, where he graduated with a J.D. with honors in 1986.[3]
Professional career
As of June 2016, Porter is a partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he has worked since 1996. His work relates to corporate law, capital markets, corporate governance and counseling, leveraged acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity.[3][4]
Porter was previously a systems engineer and marketing representative for the IBM Corporation from 1981 to 1983. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1986 to 1987, and he worked as a lawyer economist at Lexecon Inc. from 1987 to 1988. He then moved on to work as the deputy assistant secretary for policy review and analysis at the Treasury Department from 1989 to 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he served as special assistant to the president of the United States and as executive secretary of the Domestic Policy Council. He was then a counselor to the vice president of the United States from 1992 to 1993.[3]
Republican Party of Illinois
Porter was first elected to serve as the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Illinois in 2014, and was re-elected to a four-year term in 2016.[3][5][6]
Memberships and affiliations
The list below details Porter's affiliations and memberships that are shown on his profile at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP as of June 2016.[3]
- Board of Directors, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Board of Directors, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Member, Economic Club of Chicago
- Member, American Council on Germany
- Member, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
- Member, New York Bar Association
- Member, U.S. Senator Mark Kirk's Bipartisan Federal Judicial Review Commission
- Board of Directors, Association for Corporate Growth, Chicago chapter, 2007-2012
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Porter was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Illinois. Porter was one of 54 delegates from Illinois bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[7] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Delegate rules
District-level delegates from Illinois were elected directly by voters at the state primary election on March 15, 2016. At-large delegates were selected at the state convention in May 2016. District-level delegates to the national convention could run as "uncommitted" delegates or they could declare their support for a specific candidate. 2016 Illinois GOP bylaws considered a vote for a delegate to be an "expression of sentiment" and "only advisory to the Delegate or Alternate Delegate so elected, unless otherwise directed by the Rules of the Republican Party." At-large delegates were bound to support the winner of the statewide vote in Illinois' primary election for an undetermined number of ballots.
Illinois primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Illinois, 2016
| Illinois Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.8% | 562,464 | 54 | |
| Ted Cruz | 30.2% | 438,235 | 9 | |
| John Kasich | 19.7% | 286,118 | 6 | |
| Marco Rubio | 8.7% | 126,681 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.8% | 11,469 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.8% | 11,188 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 4,718 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 3,428 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,737 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,540 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 1,154 | 0 | |
| JoAnn Breivogel | 0% | 16 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,449,748 | 69 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Illinois State Board of Elections | ||||
Delegate allocation
Illinois had 69 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 54 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 18 congressional districts). According to the Republican National Committee, Illinois' district-level delegates were "elected directly on the primary ballot and bound to the candidate for whom they [declared] themselves."[8][9]
Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. Illinois' at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the statewide primary vote received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[8][9]
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Illinois Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Illinois GOP, "Richard Porter Elected as Illinois Republican National Committeeman," accessed July 29, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kirkland & Ellis LLP, "Richard W. Porter, Overview," accessed June 3. 2016
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Richard Porter," accessed June 3, 2016
- ↑ Republican National Convention Rules(as adopted in 2012), "Rule 3," accessed July 29, 2016
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff, "Phone interview with Illinois GOP staff," June 18, 2016
- ↑ Illinois Review, "IL GOP meets at state convention in Peoria," May 21, 2016
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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