Mike Crapo
Michael Dean "Mike" Crapo (/ˈkreɪpoʊ/ KRAY-poh; born May 20, 1951) is the senior United States Senator from the state of Idaho, in office since 1999. A Republican, he previously served as the United States Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district from 1993 to 1999. Born in the city of Idaho Falls, Crapo is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Harvard Law School. He practiced law in his home city throughout the 1980s, while maintaining an active role in local Republican politics. His brother Terry Crapo was majority leader in the Idaho House of Representatives and a growing political figure until his death from leukemia in 1982. Prompted by his brother's death, Crapo successfully ran for the Idaho Senate in 1984. He served as Senate President pro tempore from 1988 to 1992, in which position he served as acting governor of Idaho for 12 hours in January 1989. Crapo was elected to an open seat in Congress in 1992, representing Idaho's second district in the United States House of Representatives. After three terms in the House, he ran for the open seat in the U.S. Senate in 1998, vacated when Dirk Kempthorne successfully ran for governor. Crapo was elected with 70% of the vote, and became the first Mormon to represent Idaho in the Senate. He was unopposed in the 2004 election, a rarity in the Senate, and was re-elected in 2010 with 71% of the vote. Crapo, who had previously claimed that as a Mormon he abstained from using alcohol, pled guilty to a drunk driving charge on January 4, 2013. He was fined $250 and received a one year suspension of his driver's license.