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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2016

Education

Bachelor's

West Point, 1983

Graduate

Stanford University, 1992

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army

Years of service

1983 - 2004

Personal
Profession
Business
Contact

Personal website

Stephen Tryon was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Utah.[1]

Tryon was a 2014 independent candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Utah.[2] Stephen Tryon lost the general election on November 4, 2014.

Biography

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Tryon earned a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1983 and an M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University in 1992. He served in the United States Army from 1983 to 2004. Tryon then worked for Overstock.com as a senior vice president from 2004 to 2013.[3]

Elections

2016

See also: Utah's 3rd Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Jason Chaffetz (R) defeated Stephen Tryon (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Chaffetz defeated Chia-Chi Teng in the Republican primary on June 28, 2016.[2][4]

U.S. House, Utah District 3 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngJason Chaffetz Incumbent 73.5% 209,589
     Democratic Stephen Tryon 26.5% 75,716
Total Votes 285,305
Source: Utah Secretary of State


U.S. House, Utah, District 3 Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJason Chaffetz Incumbent 78.6% 47,439
Chia-Chi Teng 21.4% 12,922
Total Votes 60,361
Source: Utah Lieutenant Governor

2014

See also: Utah's 3rd Congressional District elections, 2014

Tryon ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Utah's 3rd District.[2] Stephen Tryon lost the general election on November 4, 2014.

Election results

U.S. House, Utah District 3 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngJason Chaffetz Incumbent 72.3% 102,952
     Democratic Brian Wonnacott 22.5% 32,059
     Independent American Zack Strong 2.2% 3,192
     Independent Ben Mates 1.1% 1,513
     Independent Stephen Tryon 1.8% 2,584
Total Votes 142,300
Source: Utah Lieutenant Governor, "Elections,"

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Tryon's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“
  • #1 An Accountable Congress: My top priority if elected will be to update the web site for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District to provide immediate access to surveys on key issues for registered voters in the district. The site will present an anonymous summary of the “sense of the district,” along with the number of people who have submitted their opinions, by county.
  • Education: Education should be a top priority, and the budget should reflect that priority. America should have the best public school infrastructure in the world, and public education through the doctoral level should be accessible to anyone with the demonstrated aptitude and the desire to earn a PhD. Public education should teach how to think, not what to think.
  • Economy: The economy of Utah's 3rd Congressional District (CD) is dominated by information technology on the Silicon Slopes, along with tourism and extraction of fossil fuels in the southern and eastern countries. Our focus should be on growing information technology and tourism businesses while shifting the energy economy to focus on solar and other sustainable sources.
  • Environment: Taking care of our environment is essential to providing a good quality of life for our children and grandchildren. We have to stop lying to ourselves about climate change—it’s real and it’s already having a strong negative effect on the economies of some developing countries.
  • Action on Climate Change: We must restrict (tax) activities that pollute our environment, including activities that produce greenhouse gases. Development of alternatives to fossil fuel energy generation technology is essential to long term prosperity and security for all countries. The United States should be at the forefront of developing new energy technology.

[5]

”
—Stephen Tryon's campaign website, http://tryonforcongress.com/issues

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Utah Secretary of State, "2016 Candidate Filings," accessed March 19, 2016
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Utah Lieutenant Governor, "2014 Candidate Filings," accessed March 21, 2014 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "list" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ Campaign website, "About," accessed March 31, 2014
  4. ↑ Politico, "Utah," June 28, 2016
  5. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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