Mark Pocan

Congressman Mark Pocan has a long record as an effective progressive leader. Mark’s political roots took hold in blue-collar Kenosha, Wisconsin where he got his start at age eight delivering campaign literature door- to-door for his father, a long-time city alderman. Mark came to Madison to attend college and shortly after earning a degree in journalism in 1986, opened up a union printing company. His active years at UW- Madison in College Democrats led to his election in 1991 to the Dane County Board of Supervisors, where he served Madison’s downtown community for three terms. In 1998, he was elected to succeed his long-time friend and ally Tammy Baldwin as the State Representative from the 78th District, when she left for Congress. He again succeeded Tammy Baldwin in the House of Representatives after she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, bringing his 14 years of experience in the Wisconsin State Assembly to Congress. Mark believes in an economy that puts workers’ interests first, and that illness, job loss, old age, or disability should not mean a life sentence of poverty. Mark and his husband Phil were married in Canada in 2006. They now live in the Town of Vermont.