Jared Polis

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Jared Schutz Polis (born May 12, 1975) is an American politician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who serves as Colorado's 43rd governor since January 2019.

From 2001 to 2007, he served on the Colorado State Board of Education, and he was the United States Representative for Colorado's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2019.

In 2018, he was elected governor of Colorado, defeating Republican nominee Walker Stapleton. Polis is the first openly gay person and second openly LGBT person to be elected governor in the United States (after Kate Brown of Oregon).

He is also the first Jewish person to be elected governor of Colorado.

Early life and education

Polis is the son of Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz, the creators of greeting card and book publisher Blue Mountain Arts. In 1975, he was born at Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado. He attended San Diego, California, as a high school student, graduating from La Jolla Country Day School in three years with multiple awards. He earned a B.A. degree from Princeton University. "Paradigm Shift: Politics in the Information Age" was published in 1996, under the direction of Carol M. Swain. Polis spent time at Princeton as the communications director of the undergraduate student government and was active in other campus organizations, including Model Congress and the Princeton Juggling Club. He legally changed his surname to his mother's in order to raise money for a cause and because he simply "liked it better."

Personal life

Polis was one of the few people openly gay in the House of Representatives and the first openly gay parent in Congress. He is also the country's second openly gay parent to hold state-level government office. Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, have a son and a daughter, who were born in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Polis is Jewish.

Queerty named Polis as one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who continuously ensure that society continues to move toward equality, recognition, and respect for all queer people" in June 2019.

Polis particularly likes League of Legends video games. Maokai and Anivia are two of his favorite opponents. He is also a huge fan of the Colorado Rockies and Denver Broncos.

Polis gave Representative Ilhan Omar's primary opponent in her 2020 reelection bid $1000 in July.

Polis married Marlon Reis, his long-serving spouse, in a small Jewish wedding at a synagogue in Boulder in September 2021.

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Business career

When still in college, Polis co-founded American Information Systems (AIS), Inc. In 1998, AIS became an internet access provider, and it was sold. In 1996, he co-founded bluemountain.com, a free electronic greeting card website that was sold to Excite@Home for $430 million in stock and $350 million in cash.

Polis founded ProFlowers, an online florist, in La Jolla, California, in February 1998. Arthur Laffer, a neologist, started advising Polis and ProFlowers as a Director in December of that year. ProFlowers, Inc., a company that later became Provide Commerce, Inc., went public on NASDAQ on December 17, 2003, as PRVD. Provide Commerce was purchased by media conglomerate Liberty Media Corporation for $477 million in 2005.

In Boulder, Colorado, Polis and other investors founded TechStars in 2006.

Polis was one of Congress' most influential members during his time as a legislator; his net worth was estimated at more than $300 million.

Philanthropic career

Polis is the founder of the Jared Polis Foundation. The Foundation gives annual Teacher Recognition Awards and donations computers to schools and non-profit organizations. Polis has also established one charter school (the New America School) and co-founded another (the Academy of Urban Learning).

Polis has been named recipient of the 2007 Boulder Daily Camera's Best in Education and the Kauffman Foundation Community Award.

Early political career

Polis has been dubbed one of the "Gang of Four" by four wealthy Coloradans who made a concerted effort to help Democrats in statewide legislative elections. Pat Stryker, Rutt Bridges, and Tim Gill are among the other members of the group. The Gang of Four's fame has been cited as a factor in Colorado's transition from the Democratic Party in the 2000s and 2010s.

Polis was elected at large by the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000 and served in office for a single six-year term until January 2007, when the department was withdrawn. He came out of a 90-vote majority in Colorado, defeating incumbent Ben Alexander by 90 votes out of a 1.6 million cast. Polis served as both chairman and vice chairman of the board during his tenure.

Polis served as co-chair of Coloradans for Clean Government, a campaign that endorsed Amendment 41, a citizen-initiated ballot measure to prohibit gifts from registered lobbyists to government officials, and establish a two-year cooling period before state senators and state legislators can begin lobbying and establish an independent ethics commission. The "Ethics in Government" constitutional amendment was approved by 63% of Colorado voters in November 2006.

Polis co-chaired the Boulder Valley School District's "Building for Our Future" campaign in 2007, which raised bond issue 3A in the district's history and the first school bond issue in Colorado this year. The Boulder Valley School District voters approved the bill in November 2006.

Polis intend to sponsor two ballot initiatives to limit fracking in Colorado by prohibiting drilling near schools and homes and encouraging communities to create their own laws. After he reached an agreement with Governor John Hickenlooper to deploy a task force, the steps were suspended. The absence of the services was seen as a relief to struggling Democrats who would have to take up conflictive positions on the subject.

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