Michael Bradley "Mike" Enzi (born February 1, 1944) is a United States senator from Wyoming. He is a member of the Republican Party. Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Enzi had been a businessman, who at one time owned family shoe stores, who had later become a politician on the state level, serving in the state legislature for over 10 years. He was reelected to the U.S. Senate in 2002.
Born in Bremerton, Washington, Enzi attended public schools of Thermopolis and Sheridan, Wyoming. He graduated from Sheridan High School in 1962. He received a degree in accounting from George Washington University in 1966 and an M.B.A. in retail marketing from the University of Denver in 1968. He served as Mayor of Gillette, Wyoming from 1975-82. He served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1987-91 and in the Wyoming State Senate from 1991-96, when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Michael B. Enzi was sworn in as Wyoming's 20th United States Senator on January 7, 1997.
Enzi is the Senate's only accountant by profession and he serves with distinction on the Senate Banking Committee.
Enzi has stood beside the independent ranchers and farmers of our nation during times of drought, disease, foreign competition, industry concentration and predator infestation, sponsoring bills taking on captive supply problems, country of origin labeling and endangered species reform.
Enzi, a former accountant and shoe-store owner, a different perspective on higher education from his New England predecessors, Judd Gregg, a Republican from New Hampshire, and Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts.
Enzi came to town for his second tour, in 1996, one of the senator's first acts was to request permission to bring his laptop onto the Senate floor to take notes.
Enzi's focus on work-force development can also be seen in his pick for education-policy director, the staff member in charge of crafting a reauthorization bill.
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