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<mask> (born 1 April 1962) is an English television presenter who works for ITV. He is currently the co-presenter of ITV's This Morning (2002–present) and Dancing on Ice (2006–2014, 2018–present) alongside Holly Willoughby. <mask> gained national attention working for the BBC, first as a continuity presenter for Children's BBC on weekdays from 1985 to 1987. His other television work includes Going Live! (1987–1993), All Star Mr & Mrs (2008–2016), The Cube (2009–2015, 2020–present), Text Santa (2011–2015), and 5 Gold Rings (2017–2020). Early life
<mask> was born on 1 April 1962 in Oldham, Lancashire. He grew up in Newquay, Cornwall, where he attended Trenance Infant School and Newquay Tretherras School.When he was 15, his first foray into media was a Sunday show on Hospital Radio Plymouth. After many years of writing letters to the BBC, at 17, <mask> took up the position of bookings clerk and tea boy for BBC Radio at Broadcasting House in London, where he was, at the time, the youngest employee. Career

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Aged 19, <mask> moved with his family to New Zealand, where he made his television debut as the initial presenter of the youth music programme Shazam! on 23 February 1982. He also spent two years working for the Auckland-based radio station Radio Hauraki. In 1985, he returned to Britain, where he became the first in-vision continuity presenter for Children's BBC on weekdays for two years from September 1985 in what was known as the 'Broom Cupboard'. He left to present Going Live!on Saturday mornings between September 1987 and April 1993. From 1988 to 1991, he was the host of the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, a pop-magazine awards show. In the early 1990s, <mask> moved to adult-orientated television with various programmes for ITV, such as Schofield's Quest, Schofield's TV Gold and Ten Ball. From 1994 to 1997, he presented Talking Telephone Numbers for five series and in 1996 he hosted a show about remarkable coincidences called One in a Million. He co-authored the book that came out of the series. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1998, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the curtain call of the musical Doctor Dolittle at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. In the following decade, Schofield presented the National Lottery Winning Lines programme for BBC One between June 2001 and October 2004.And between 2002 and 2006, he co-hosted the BBC quiz show Test the Nation with Anne Robinson. In July 2006, he signed an exclusive two-year contract with ITV, reported to have been worth £5 million. The exclusive deal also meant he could no longer present Test the Nation and was replaced by Danny Wallace. Since 2002, <mask> has been a presenter on the ITV daytime show This Morning replacing John Leslie with Fern Britton until 2009 and with Holly Willoughby who replaced Britton in September that year. In May 2008, <mask>'s father, Brian, died from a long-standing heart condition, which led to <mask> taking a break from presenting This Morning. John Barrowman stood in for him until his return. Starting in 2005, Schofield presented two series of Have I Been Here Before?, a daytime programme where a celebrity attempted to use regression to get in touch with a previous life.Since 2006, he has presented The British Soap Awards. Between 2006 and 2008, he hosted the programme with Fern Britton but since 2009, alone. During the run of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, he co-hosted the spin-off series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here! Exclusive with Sheree Murphy. The show lasted one series. In 2006, Schofield presented two episodes of the ITV game show It's Now or Never, before the network cancelled the show, due to poor ratings. <mask> presented Dancing on Ice on ITV with Holly Willoughby from 2006 until 2011 and Christine Bleakley from 2012 until 2014.It was announced in the summer of 2013 that Dancing on Ice was to come to an end following the 2014 series. <mask> returned to co-present the show in 2018 following ITV's choice to reboot the series after four years away. Since April 2008, he and Fern Britton hosted a revival of the ITV game show Mr. and Mrs., renamed as All Star Mr & Mrs. In 2010, the show took a break but returned in 2012 without Britton. From 2009 until 2015, he presented the primetime game show The Cube. <mask> returned to present the show in 2020 following ITV's choice to reboot the series after five years away. He also hosted A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards with Amanda Holden from 2009 until 2014.In 2010 and 2011, Schofield hosted the annual comedy show The Comedy Annual on ITV. From 2011 until 2015, He co-hosted the Christmas charity show Text Santa on ITV with Christine Lampard in 2011, 2014 and 2015 and Holly Willoughby in 2012 and 2013. In April 2011 and June 2012, Schofield co-hosted ITV's coverage of the Royal Wedding and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with Julie Etchingham. In March 2014, Schofield narrated the one-off ITV2 show Educating Joey Essex. The show was commissioned for a full series which was aired throughout 2014. The show was commissioned for a seven-part second series, filming began in April 2016, and the series aired in summer 2016 with the first episode titled "The Queen's 90th Birthday". In December 2014, he undertook a live 24-hour TV marathon to raise money for Text Santa, where, as well as appearing on This Morning, he appeared on various other programmes throughout the day, including being a guest panellist on Loose Women.He presented two series of the primetime game show You're Back in the Room for ITV in 2015 and 2016. In 2016, he travelled to South Africa with his wife, as part of a series of short clips for This Morning. Following this, ITV aired three 30 minute episodes in a primetime slot, called Schofield's South African Adventure. Since March 2017, he has presented 5 Gold Rings, a new game show format for ITV. In 2017, Schofield presented three-part factual series How To Spend It Well at Christmas with <mask> in which he tested the latest must-have festive gifts. Radio
While working as presenter of Going Live!, <mask> was also broadcasting on BBC Radio 1 with a Sunday show (also called Going Live). When Radio 1 started to broadcast in FM stereo in 1988, <mask> was one of the presenters chosen to help with the launch.In February 2010, Schofield launched Radio Plymouth in Devon. Theatre
<mask> first performed on the West End stage in 1991, taking over the role of Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat from Jason Donovan. The second musical he performed in was the title role of Doctor Dolittle at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, before touring the UK. <mask> reprised his role as Joseph for an episode of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway in March 2018. Other ventures

Music
While appearing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Schofield was approached to record a cover of "Close Every Door" to be released as a single. The single was released in December 1992 on Polydor Records and peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Wine
Schofield collects Bordeaux wines, an interest kindled by friend Jason Donovan.Asked in 1992 to introduce a compilation video for Donovan, Schofield refused to accept payment. Stock, Aitken and Waterman sent him two cases of Burgundy with a set of tasting notes; he joined the Wine Society two years later. In 2013, Schofield began writing for the Waitrose Weekend newspaper, and has been the face of wine in their UK stores ever since. Schofield has a separate Twitter account about wine called @SchofeOnWine. Controversies

David Cameron This Morning interview
On 8 November 2012, Schofield interviewed then prime minister David Cameron on This Morning, and presented him with a list he had obtained from the internet of five people named as paedophiles in connection with the North Wales child abuse scandal. The names of several former senior Conservative politicians were visible on the list. Schofield was widely criticised for his action, with broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby describing his behaviour as "cretinous".Cameron responded by warning against a witchhunt, "particularly about people who are gay". ITV's director of television, Peter Fincham, said that Schofield was "wrong" in confronting Cameron and said that the broadcaster had agreed to co-operate fully with government regulator Ofcom's investigation into the matter. The investigation was initiated after Ofcom received 415 complaints from viewers. Schofield later apologised, blaming a misjudged camera angle. Schofield and ITV later paid £125,000 compensation to settle a libel suit from one of those falsely accused, Lord McAlpine. Personal life
<mask> has dual British and New Zealand citizenship. He married his long-term partner Stephanie Lowe in March 1993; the couple have two daughters.They reside in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Schofield is a patron of the charity Shooting Star Children's Hospices, which offers help and support to families of children who are not expected to reach their 19th birthday. In conjunction with rose specialist C&K Jones, he launched the Schofield rose in support of CHASE (the former name of Shooting Star) at Gardeners' World in June 2006: each rose sold attracted a donation to CHASE. Schofield is also an ambassador for children's charity Kidscape and age-positive charity Royal Voluntary Service, previously known as WRVS. On 8 October 2012, Schofield became an Honorary Patron of the Blue Lamp Foundation, a UK based charity which raises money to support emergency services personnel who have been injured in the course of duty. On 7 February 2020, Schofield came out as gay via a statement posted on one of his Instagram stories, followed up in an interview on This Morning, stating that "with the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, I have been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay". He has said he thought he was bisexual when he married his wife in 1993, but realised later that he was gay.Honours
 He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts (D.Arts) by the University of Plymouth in 2011. Filmography

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Bibliography
 One in a Million (with Peter A. Hough, Michael O'Mara Books, 1996)
 Life is What You Make It (2020)

Fun File
 The First Phillip Schofield Fun File (Random House Children's Books, 1988)
 The Second <mask>ield Fun File (Bantam Books, 1989)

Gordon the Gopher
 The Adventures of Gordon T. Gopher (Knight Books, 1989)
 <mask>'s Gordon T. Gopher Annual (World International Publishing Ltd., 1988)

References

External links

 <mask> at itv.com

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<mask> or <mask> (, <mask>; , <mask>; November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian  Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory. Biography
<mask> was born in the hamlet of Viunyshche located in the Sosnitsky Uyezd of the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire (now part of Sosnytsia in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine), to <mask> and Odarka Yermolayivna Dovzhenko. His paternal ancestors were Ukrainian Cossacks (Chumaks) who settled in Sosnytsia in the eighteenth century, coming from the neighbouring province of Poltava. <mask> was the seventh of fourteen children born to the couple, but due to the deaths of his siblings he was the oldest child by the time he turned eleven. Ultimately, only <mask> and his sister Polina, who later becomes a doctor, survived to adulthood. Although his parents were uneducated, <mask>'s semi-literate grandfather encouraged him to study, leading him to become a teacher at the age of 19.He avoided military service during World War I because of a heart condition, but during the Civil War he served a year in the Red Army. In 1919 in Zhytomyr he was taken prisoner and sent to the prison . In 1920 <mask> joined the Borotbist party. He served as an assistant to the Ambassador in Warsaw as well as Berlin. Upon his return to USSR in 1923, he began illustrating books and drawing cartoons in Kharkiv. <mask> turned to film in 1926 when he landed in Odessa. His ambitious drive led to the production of his second-ever screenplay, Vasya the Reformer (which he also co-directed).He gained greater success with Zvenyhora in 1928, the story of a young adventurer who becomes a bandit and counter-revolutionary and comes to a bad end, while his virtuous brother spends the film fighting for the revolution, which established him as a major filmmaker of his era. His following "Ukraine Trilogy" (Zvenigora, Arsenal, and Earth), are his most well-known works in the West. Arsenal was badly received by the communist authorities in Ukraine, who began harassing <mask> - but, fortunately for him, Stalin watched it and liked it. <mask>'s Earth has been praised as one of the greatest silent movies ever made. The British film director Karel Reisz was asked in 2002 by the British Film Institute to rank the greatest films ever made, and he put Earth second. The film portrayed collectivization in a positive light. Its plot revolved around a landowner's attempt to ruin a successful collective farm as it took delivery of its first tractor, though it opened with a long close-up of an elderly, dying man taking intense pleasure in the taste of an apple - a scene with no obvious political message, but with some aspect of autobiography.The film was panned by the Soviet authorities. The poet, Demyan Bedny, attacked its "defeatism" over three columns of the newspaper Izvestia, and <mask> was forced to re-edit it. Appeal to Stalin
<mask>'s next film, Ivan, portrayed a Dneprostroi construction worker and his reactions to industrialization, which was then summarily denounced for promoting fascism and pantheism. Fearing arrest, <mask> personally appealed to Stalin. One day later, he was invited to the Kremlin, where he read the script of his next project, Aerograd, about the defense of a newly constructed city from Japanese infiltrators, to an audience of four of the most powerful men in the country - Stalin, Molotov, Kirov and Voroshilov. Stalin approved the project but 'suggested' that <mask>'s next project, after Aerograd, should be dramatized biography of the Ukrainian communist guerilla fighter, Nikolay Shchors. In January 1935, the Soviet film industry celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a major festival, during which the country's most renowned director Sergei Eisenstein, who was in trouble with the authorities, and had not been allowed to complete a film for several years, gave a rambling speech that jumped from one esoteric topic to another.<mask> joined in the criticism, raising a laugh pleading: "Sergei Mikhailovich, if you do not produce a film at least within a year, then please do not produce one at all... All this talk about Polynesian females, I will gladly exchange all your unfinished scenarios for one of your films." At the end of the conference, Stalin presented <mask> with the Order of Lenin. Later, <mask> was summoned to the Kremlin again, and told by Stalin that he was a "free man", who was not under "any obligation" to make the film about Shchors. He took the hint, and paused work on Aerograd to follow Stalin's 'suggestion', and sent the dictator a draft of the screenplay for Schors. He was then summoned in front of the boss of the Soviet film industry Boris Shumyatsky to be told that the script contained serious political errors. His request for another meeting with Stalin was ignored, so he wrote to the dictator on 26 November 1936, pleading: "This is my life, and if I am doing it wrong, then it is due to a shortage of talent or development, not malice. I bear your refusal to see me as a great sorrow."Stalin's response was a brief note to Shumyatsky, in December, listing five things that were wrong with the script, including that "Shchors came out too crude and uncouth." Later work
<mask> completed Aerograd in 1935. Before its release in November, <mask> had begun work on Shchors. According to Jan Leyda, who was employed in the Soviet cinema industry at the time:

Several of <mask>'s colleagues were shot or sent to labour camps during the Great Purge, in 1937–38, including his favourite cameraman, Danylo Demutsky, who worked with him on Earth. But when, at last, he had completed Shchors, which was released in January 1939, he was paid a huge fee - 100,000 rubles - and awarded the Stalin Prize (1941). During the war, <mask> wrote an article and a screenplay Ukraine in Flames, which was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev and other Ukrainian communist officials for having 'veiled nationalistic moods'. According to a report sent by the head of the NKVD Vsevolod Merkulov to Andrei Zhdanov, the party secretary in charge of culture, <mask> resented the criticism, saying "these people cannot guide the war and the people.This is trash." After being hauled in front of the Central Committee, <mask> was excluded from various official organisations, cut himself off from fellow artists and applied himself to writing a screenplay about the biologist, Michurin. The film Michurin earned him another Stalin prize, in 1949. After spending several years writing, co-writing and producing films at Mosfilm Studios in Moscow, he turned to writing novels. Over a 20-year career, <mask> personally directed only seven films. He was a mentor to the young Soviet Ukrainian filmmakers Larisa Shepitko and Sergei Parajanov. <mask> died of a heart attack on November 25, 1956, in his dacha in Peredelkino.His wife, Yulia Solntseva, continued his legacy by producing films of her own and completing projects <mask> was not able to create. The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv were named after him in his honour following his death. Filmography
Love's Berries (, translit. Yagodki lyubvi, , translit. Yahidky kokhannya), 1926
Vasya the Reformer (, translit. Vasya – reformator, , translit. Vasya – reformator), 1926
The Diplomatic Pouch (, translit.Sumka dipkuryera, , translit. Sumka dypkuryera), 1927
Zvenigora (, translit. Zvenigora, , translit. Zvenyhora), 1928
Arsenal (, ), 1929
Earth (, translit. Zemlya, , translit. Zemlya), 1930
Ivan (, ), 1932
Aerograd (, , translit. Aerohrad), 1935
Bukovyna: a Ukrainian Land (, translit.Bukovina, Zemlya Ukrainskaya, , translit., Bukovyna, Zemlya Ukrayins'ka), 1939
Shchors* (, ), 1939
Liberation* (, translit. Osvobozhdeniye, , translit. Vyzvolennya), 1940
Battle for Soviet Ukraine* (, translit. Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu, , translit. Bytva za nashu Radyans'ku Ukrayinu), 1943
Soviet Earth (, translit. Strana rodnaya, , translit. Krayina ridna), 1945
Victory in the Ukraine and the Expulsion of the Germans from the Boundaries of the Ukrainian Soviet Earth (, translit.Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predeli Ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel, , translit. Peremoha na Pravoberezhniy Ukrayini), 1945
Michurin (, ), 1948
Farewell, America (, , translit. Proshchay, Ameryko), 1949
Poem of the Sea* (, translit. Poema o more, , translit. Poema pro more), 1959

*codirected by Yuliya Solntseva

References

Further reading
<mask>, Alexandr (ed. Marco Carynnyk) (1973). Alexandr <mask>: The Poet as Filmmaker, MIT Press.Kepley, Jr., Vance (1986). In the Service of the State: The Cinema of Alexandr <mask>, University of Wisconsin Press. Liber, George O. (2002). <mask>: A Life in Soviet Film, British Film Institute. Nebesio, Bohdan. "Preface" to Special Issue: The Cinema of <mask>.Journal of Ukrainian Studies. 19.1 (Summer, 1994): pp. 2–3. Perez, Gilberto (2000) Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium, Johns Hopkins University Press. Abramiuk, Larissa (1998) The Ukrainian Baroque in Oleksandr <mask>'s Cinematic Art, The Ohio State University (UMI). External links

Chris Fujiwara's review Neglected Giant: <mask> at the MFA
Ray Uzwyshyn Alexandr <mask>'s Silent Trilogy: A Visual Exploration
 John Riley "A (Ukrainian) Life in Soviet Film: Liber's Alexandr <mask>", Film-Philosophy, vol. 7 no.31, October 2003 – a review of George O. Liber (2002), Alexandr <mask>: A Life in Soviet Film
 Landscapes of the Soul: The Cinema of Alexandr <mask>,
 "Screenplays About the Earth" by <mask> from SovLit.net
 Oleksandr Dovzhenko Center

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<mask> (14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007) was an English cricket coach, cricketer, and a commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and six One Day Internationals for the England cricket team and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan. On 18 March 2007, <mask> died suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team's unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Shortly afterwards, Jamaican police announced that they were opening a murder investigation into <mask>'s death. In November 2007, a jury in Jamaica recorded an open verdict on <mask>'s death. Early life
<mask> was born in the Georgina McRobert Memorial Hospital across the road from the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, India on 14 May 1948. His father was the cricketer <mask>, who represented United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in the Ranji Trophy.At the age of 10, <mask> witnessed Hanif Mohammad scoring 499, setting a world record for the highest score in first-class cricket. Some 35 years later, <mask>, as coach of Warwickshire County Cricket Club, was watching when the county's batsman Brian Lara passed that mark, setting a new record of 501 not out. <mask> went to school in Kent, first at Yardley Court in Tonbridge and then The Skinners' School in Royal Tunbridge Wells. When he was 15, Colin Page, the coach and captain of the Kent second XI, converted him from an off-spinner to a medium pace bowler. <mask>'s first job was as a sales representative for ICI, and his first senior cricket was with the Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club club and with Kent's second XI. In 1967 he broke the Kentish Leagues' Bat and trap record for most consecutive strikes between the white posts: 13 in one game. Selection for Kent
In 1968, at the age of 20, <mask> joined the Kent cricket staff and made his championship debut against Essex.His ability to move the ball about at medium-pace was ideally suited to one-day cricket at which he became a specialist. He won his county cap in 1969. <mask> began his coaching career in South Africa in 1970–71 at the age of 22 and by 1975, when he made his Test debut, he had become a teacher of physical education at a prep school in Kent as well as running his own cricket school – at the time one of the youngest cricket school owners anywhere. Playing career
<mask> played English county cricket for Kent, initially as an all-rounder. He graduated to Test cricket with England in 1975 again, at first, as an all-rounder, having taken a hat-trick for MCC against the touring Australian cricket team with his fast-medium bowling. But he was dropped after his first Test, only reappearing in the final match of the series at The Oval where he scored 149, batting at number five, then the slowest Test century for England against Australia. Further batting success followed over the next two seasons, including two further centuries against Australia in 1977.Rarely for an Englishman since the Second World War, all his Test centuries were made against Australia. <mask> was also a regular in England ODI cricket from 1972 to 1976. But <mask>'s international career stalled after he joined the World Series break-away group run by Kerry Packer. Though he appeared intermittently in the Test team up to 1981, he never recaptured the form of the mid 1970s. He also took part in the South African rebel tours of 1982, a move that effectively ended his international career. Coaching career
<mask> obtained his coaching qualification in 1968. In South Africa
After retiring from first-class cricket in 1984, he emigrated to South Africa, where he coached cricket and hockey at high schools.He also became involved in the Avendale Cricket Club in Athlone, Cape Town. He preferred to join a 'coloured' club rather than a 'white' one in apartheid South Africa. He was an inspiration to Avendale and was instrumental in assisting the club to grow and be successful. Because of him, there is still an annual programme for a talented Avendale cricketer to spend a summer at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire. In England
He returned to England in 1987 to coach the second eleven at Kent. He went on to coach the Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1991, the side winning the Natwest Trophy in 1993, and three out of four trophies contested the next year. He continued his success by leading Warwickshire to Natwest and County Championship success in 1995, before taking on the Post of South African National Coach.<mask> is thought to be the only man to have witnessed both Brian Lara's innings of 501 not out against Durham in 1994 and Hanif Mohammad's 499 in Karachi in 1958. Coaching methods
<mask> was known for his progressive coaching techniques. He is credited with having made the reverse sweep a more popular shot for batsmen in the 1990s, as well as being one of the first to use computer analysis, and trying to adapt the knowledge of goalkeepers to wicketkeepers in cricket. He later attracted attention at the 1999 World Cup by communicating with his captain Hansie Cronje with an earpiece during matches. The practice was later banned. South Africa
He was appointed coach of South Africa in 1994. Initially his team performed poorly, losing all six matches on his first outing in Pakistan.However, in the next five years, South Africa won most of their Test (10 out of 15 series) and One Day International matches (73%). However, the side failed to win either the 1996 World Cup or the 1999 World Cup, despite having the highest ODI success rate among international teams in that period. At the 1996 tournament on the Indian subcontinent, his team won all their preliminary group matches before succumbing to the West Indies in the quarter finals. At the 1999 tournament, South Africa faced Australia in the final match of the Super Six round; Australia needed to win to qualify for the semifinals, whereas South Africa had already done so. Australia boasted a superior recent record in must-win matches against South Africa. Media speculation was focused on <mask>'s team being less adept at handling high pressure situations. In the 1997/98 Australian international season, Australia had lost all four of their qualifying matches against South Africa in a triangular tournament and conceded a 1–0 finals series lead, before recovering to take the series 2–1.The Super Six match saw Australia win the match in the last over, after Herschelle Gibbs dropped Australian captain Steve Waugh in a premature celebration of a catch. Waugh went on to score an unbeaten century and score the winning runs. The semifinal rematch saw a late Australian comeback culminate in a tie, when with match scores level, South African batsmen Lance Klusener and Allan Donald had a mix up, with Donald dropping his bat and being run out. As a result, South Africa were eliminated due to their inferior performance in the earlier matches. and <mask> resigned. <mask> was a strong candidate to replace David Lloyd as coach of England in 1999 but wanted a break from cricket and was reluctant to lead England in a tour of South Africa so soon after having relinquished the South African coaching job. Back to Warwickshire
He later returned to Warwickshire, and gained attention when he called for the removal of a life ban on South African captain Hansie Cronje for match-fixing.<mask> spoke openly about Cronje and match fixing in an interview on the BBC TV programme "Panorama" in May 2001. He then worked for the International Cricket Council in helping with cricket development in countries where the sport was not well established. Pakistan
He was appointed coach of the Pakistan team in 2004. This came after Javed Miandad was sacked when the Pakistanis conceded a 2–1 Test and 3–2 ODI series loss on home soil to arch rivals India, their first series win there in two decades. He was feted when his team reversed the result in early 2005 on their return tour to India, drawing the Tests 1–1 and winning the ODI series 4–2. In 2005 Pakistan beat England in a home series immediately after England had beaten the Australian team in England to secure the Ashes. In the home series against India that followed, <mask>'s side were victorious in the Test series, winning it 1–0; however, the side lost the ODI series that followed 4–1.<mask>'s side then beat Sri Lanka 2–0 in a 3 ODI series and achieved a 3rd consecutive Test series win with a 1–0 win in a 2 test series with Sri Lanka. 2006 ball-tampering row
In August 2006, on the eve of Pakistan's Twenty20 international against England in Bristol, <mask> was forced to defend his reputation when it was claimed Pakistani players lifted the seam of the ball when he was in charge of the team. Former International Cricket Council match referee Barry Jarman alleged that during the 1997 triangular one-day tournament involving South Africa, Zimbabwe and India, a match ball, still in Jarman's possession, that was confiscated after just 16 overs showed evidence of tampering by <mask>'s team. <mask> could not recall any such incident and he denied advocating ball-tampering. He also indicated that he contacted the match officials from that game who also could not recall any such incident. <mask> stated in 2006 that he believed that ball-tampering should be allowed in cricket and that a modification to existing laws should be made. Death
On 18 March 2007 – the day after Pakistan were knocked out of the 2007 World Cup, and three days before their final game of the tournament – <mask> was found dead in his hotel room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.The initial report was that <mask> had died of a heart attack. On 22 March, Jamaican police confirmed that an investigation had been launched because of the circumstances of <mask>'s death, based on a report by pathologist Ere Seshaiah that <mask> had died of asphyxia via manual strangulation. Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields led the investigation. On 12 June 2007, Lucius Thomas, the commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, announced that the investigation had concluded that Woolmer had died of natural causes, and was not murdered as indicated by the earlier pathologist's report. Three independent pathologists' reports commissioned by the police had found that the initial conclusion of manual strangulation was incorrect, and toxicology tests found no evidence of poisoning. The findings of the pathologists, and of Metropolitan Police detectives who had visited Jamaica to assist with the investigation, were reported in the weeks leading up to the announcement, which was widely expected by the time it was made. Reports suggested that <mask> suffered from health problems including an enlarged heart and diabetes, which may have contributed to his death.On 6 November, coroner Patrick Murphy asked for further tests to be carried out on samples taken from <mask>'s body following discrepancies in the toxicology reports by forensic scientists from the Caribbean and the UK. After hearing twenty-six days of evidence, the jury at the inquest returned an open verdict, refusing to rule out the controversial strangulation theory put forward by Ere Seshaiah. In an interview with Fox News, former South African cricketer Clive Rice claimed that Woolmer was murdered by organised crime groups, saying "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way". Former Australian captain Ian Chappell has also gone on record stating that he "doubts that he died of natural causes" and speculated that <mask> may have been about to reveal "some misgivings".

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<mask><mask> (August 14, 1841 – October 21, 1908) was a teamster, miner, hotel owner, customs inspector, recorder, and Pima County, Arizona County Sheriff and a contemporary of Wyatt Earp and his brothers. <mask> promised a job as Deputy Sheriff to Earp, but when Earp announced his support for Bob Paul as the next sheriff, <mask> appointed Earp's antagonist Johnny Behan to the position instead. Personal life

<mask> was born on August 14, 1841 to George and <mask>Byrne) Shibbell in St. Louis, Missouri where he attended public school. He attended Iowa College (later renamed Grinnell College). In 1860, he left Iowa for Sacramento, California, where he got a job as a clerk in a general store. He later moved to the Southwest where he married Mercedes Sais Quiroz in 1868. Mercedes had been kidnapped as a child with Larcena Pennington Page in March 1860 by Apache Indians.She was later traded for Apache prisoners. Mercedes and <mask> had four children: Mamie A., Lillie M., <mask>. and Mercedes A., before his wife died in 1876 at age 26. In 1877, <mask> married Nellie Norton and they had two children, Lionel J. and Orpha. Professional life

In 1862, just as the Civil War was beginning, he joined Col. James H. Carleton's California Column. He worked as a civilian teamster and was with the Union forces when they re-captured Tucson, Arizona, from Confederate forces on May 20, 1862. He followed the force to the Rio Grande and remained there until January 1, 1863, when he returned to Tucson. He worked for the federal government transporting supplies  from the headquarters at Tucson to Ft. Yuma.In 1864, the troops were ordered to the Rio Grande where they would be mustered out, and <mask> remained in Tucson. In June 1864, he went to work at the Cerro Colorado Mine as a silver miner about  southwest of Tucson. In May 1865, he moved to the Sonoita River about  south of Tubac, Arizona, participating in the cowboy business before operating his own cattle ranch. His ranch was repeatedly attacked by Apache Indians and he lost cattle on several occasions to the Indians, until two or three of his men were killed. Unable to withstand the Apache's attacks, he left the area in 1867 and returned to Tucson. He became a Customs Inspector for the next two years. He may have been a participant in the Camp Grant Massacre on April 30, 1871, during which 144 Aravaipas and Pinal Indians were killed and mutilated, almost all of them women and children.He then opened a stagecoach stop named Desert Station on the road  northwest of Tucson which he maintained through 1872. He also resumed the teamster business that year between Tucson and Yuma. In 1874, <mask>, a lifelong Democrat, developed an interest in politics. In January 1875, he was appointed a Pima County Deputy Sheriff by Tucson Mayor William S. Oury and held the office for two years. He ran for Sheriff in 1876 and held that office for four years, until 1881. He was responsible for enforcing the law for 3,000 citizens spread out over  on the extremely remote border with Mexico, a wide-open area on the edge of the American frontier. On August 19, 1878, <mask> and a citizen posse tracked Arizona and New Mexico Territory road-agent William Whitney Brazelton, who was suspected of repeated stagecoach robberies in the Tucson area, to a meeting place where he expected to receive supplies from a confederate named David Nemitz.Nemitz warned that Brazelton "would not be taken alive unless by artful strategy." <mask> gave orders to shoot on sight if needed, and Brazelton was killed during the confrontation in a mesquite bosque along the Santa Cruz River approximately three miles south of Tucson. Shortly thereafter, Brazelton's body was photographed by pioneer Tucson photographer Henry Buehman and copies of these were available for sale to the general public. Additionally, John J. Valentine Sr. Wells, Fargo & Co. would, as a direct response to Brazelton's criminal actions in Pima County, send special agent and future sheriff of said county, Bob Paul, to investigate on their behalf." <mask> was reelected Sheriff in 1878. On July 27, 1880, <mask> appointed Wyatt Earp Deputy Sheriff in Pima County, when Tombstone, Arizona was still part of Pima County, making Earp the primary law enforcement officer for most of eastern Pima County. Election overturned

<mask> ran for reelection as Pima County Sheriff in the November 2, 1880, election against Republican Bob Paul.The region was strongly Republican and Paul was expected to win. Whoever won would likely appoint someone from the same political party. Republican Wyatt expected he would continue in the job. <mask> was supported in his reelection bid by a loosely organized federation of outlaw Cowboys, mostly Southerners, who strongly opposed Wyatt Earp and the Republicans generally. A cowboy in that time and region was generally regarded as an outlaw. Legitimate cowmen were referred to as cattle herders or ranchers. Elections were held on November 2, and it was expected that Democrat <mask> would be defeated by Republican Bob Paul, who Wyatt had supported during the campaign.<mask> won the election by a 58-vote margin. On November 19, Bob Paul filed suit and accused <mask> of ballot-stuffing in the San Simon precinct, since the precinct delivered a 103 to 1 vote for <mask> in a precinct that contained only about 10 eligible voters. The trial was transferred to Tucson's district court and began in January 17. On January 20, 1881, the  Arizona Star reported, "There has been some big cheating somewhere, and by some persons. It was clear that there had been reckless counting at Tombstone, fraud at San Simon and a careless election board at Tres Alamos." A recount was held and this time Paul had 402 votes and <mask> had 354. Sixty-two were kept from a closer examination.James Johnson later testified for Bud Paul in the election hearing and said that the ballots had been left in the care of Democrat Phin Clanton. Meanwhile, a week after the election on November 9, 1880, Earp resigned. The position of undersheriff was now open, and <mask> immediately selected Democrat Johnny Behan to serve as Tombstone area undersheriff. In February 1881, the San Simon results were thrown out by the election commissioners, but <mask> filed an appeal. He was finally removed from office in April and replaced by Bob Paul. Operates hotels

When his term as Sheriff ended, he bought and ran the Palace Hotel (later renamed the Occidental Hotel). In 1884, he opened a store until 1887 when he was once again appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Eugene O. Shaw.He was deputy sheriff until January 1, 1889. On February 22, 1888, <mask> along with U.S. Deputy Marshal William K. Meade and deputies pursued men suspected of robbing a Southern Pacific train deep into Mexico. When they finally notified Mexican authorities of their purpose in Mexico, they were arrested for entering the country illegally. It was during his second appointment as deputy sheriff that <mask> challenged an old friend, a former guide and scout for the U.S. Army named <mask> Banta, the reputed discoverer of Meteor Crater, to track down a fugitive 900 miles into Old Mexico and back. He returned with his prisoner, saying he "had one horse shot; missed being assassinated three or four times, but I am here yet, telling the story." In 1888, <mask> was elected as the Pima County Recorder, a position he held until 1902. <mask> died in Tucson on October 21, 1908.References

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 David Leighton, "Shibell St. named for 1870s sheriff," Arizona Daily Star, Sept. 4, 2012

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<mask> (13 June 1823 – 22 August 1900) was a French soldier and politician who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and Delegate for War during the Paris Commune. Biography

In the French Army
<mask> was born on 13 June 1823 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1841 he entered the Saint-Cyr military academy, and was commissioned in the French Army in 1843. He was made captain of the 23rd Mobile Guard battalion following the February revolution of 1848, and participated in the suppression of the June Days Uprising which was to later earn him hostility in certain socialist quarters. His support for an anti-Bonapartist demonstration on 29 January 1849 saw him demoted from command of his battalion, and he fled to London after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's December 1851 coup. He was reinstated as a lieutenant in early 1853 and took part in several expeditions to Algeria. He served in the Crimean War, and was wounded during the siege of Sebastopol.It was at this time that he acquired the nickname of "Captain Tin Can", derived from his hoarding of canned meat and bread rations at the expense of his troops. He resigned from the army in July 1858. With Garibaldi's Volunteers
After brief spells in Northern Algeria and New York City he travelled to Naples in 1860 and participated in the foundation of the De Flotte Legion, a French Corps to assist in the fight for Italian unification, of which he was soon given command. The legion was subsequently disbanded into the Piedmontese army and Cluseret lost his colonelship. In the American Civil War
In 1861 Cluseret returned to America to 'participate in the triumph of freedom'. He served under Fremont and McClellan, and actively lobbied to secure his promotion to the rank of brigadier general, but resigned in March 1863. Following his resignation he co-founded the New York City-based newspaper New Nation with Fremont, which adopted a radical Republican perspective, criticising Lincoln's gradualist approach to the issue of slavery.After an acrimonious dispute between the two leading to a lawsuit, Cluseret had to pay Fremont a £1,148 fine, although he remained proprietor of the New Nation for a further year. The Fenian Brotherhood and Reform League
In 1866, the governor of New York, Reuben Fenton, entrusted Cluseret with a mission to organise the Fenian Brotherhood as part of a diversionary plan to undermine British influence in the Mediterranean. He participated in the Fenian Rising of 1867, escaping arrest on the collapse of the movement, but was condemned to death in his absence. He fled Ireland and arrived in London just after the Reform League's Hyde Park demonstration in 1867. He met a dozen members of the Reform League, including John Bedford Leno, in a private room of the "White Horse" in Rathbone Place. He proposed that they create civil war in England and offered the service of two thousand sworn members of the Fenian body, and that he would act as their leader. John Bedford Leno was the first to reply and denounced the proposal, stating that it would surely lead to their "discomfiture and transportation", and added that the government would surely hear of the plot.During subsequent speeches, Leno noticed that only a matchboard partition divided the room they occupied with another adjoining room, and that voices could be heard the other side. Leno declared his intention to leave at once; the others agreed and the room was soon cleared. The next day the meeting was fully reported in The Times, although Leno's speech had been attributed to George Odgers, who had in fact been the only person to support Cluserat's proposal. John Bedford Leno was fully satisfied with the success the Reform League had met and, being opposed to unnecessary violence, bitterly opposed the interference of Cluseret, as did most of the other members of the Reform League. Cluseret's "call to arms" was rejected and he left England for Paris. Paris Commune
He soon incurred the wrath of the French authorities, serving two months at Sainte-Pélagie Prison for an antimilitarist article published in his newly founded newspaper L'Art. At this time he met several members of the International Workingmen's Association.Although he claimed to have had an interest in socialist ideas since 1848, it appears he did not join the International Workingmen's Association until his detainment, although he later claimed to have been a member since 1865. He made a brief return to America to avoid further imprisonment, arriving back in France upon the proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870. After his initial attempts to obtain a commission in the French army were refused he set to work to organize the social revolution, first at Lyon and afterwards at Marseilles. Mikhail Bakunin placed much of the blame for the failure of the Lyon Commune revolution on Cluseret's refusal to arm the local volunteers. On the news of the Communard rising of 18 March 1871 he hastened to Paris, where he was appointed Delegate of War by the Commune's Executive Commission. He quickly set about reorganising the National Guard, but his attempts to introduce a centralised militarism led to friction with the federalist Central Committee who withdrew their willing co-operation, and routinely censored his proclamations. On 16 April he was elected a member of the commune, and subsequently reelected its Delegate of War.Disagreements with the other leaders of the Commune led to his arrest on 1 May, on a false charge of betraying the cause. On 21 May he appeared before an ad hoc court and was acquitted. During the occupation of Paris by the Versailles troops he hid at a priest's house, and in November left the city disguised as a priest and crossed into Belgium and from there onto Switzerland where he stayed until 1877. Cluseret published his Mémoires (of the Commune) at Paris in 1887–88. After the Commune
Following the suppression of the Commune many Communards fled to Geneva. This allowed Cluseret to remain politically active although he was dogged with allegations of being a Prussian spy. His apparently comfortable living conditions were interpreted as a
give-away.His time in Geneva was however largely uneventful and with new adventure in mind, he departed for the Ottoman Empire in late September 1877 intent on recruiting volunteers to found a republic in Turkey. After several months travelling through the Balkans, Cluseret made it to Constantinople, but little is known of his involvement in the Russo-Turkish war. He made a brief return to France in 1880 following the amnesty offered to Communards, but again had to flee, this time for penning an article critical of General Ernest Courtot de Cissey. He returned to Constantinople where he stayed until 1886, making a living as an artist and porcelain maker, and providing the US government with a report on Turkish cotton. After his return to France he settled in Hyères, a town near Toulon. In 1888, 1889, 1893 and 1898 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies as a socialist by the electorate of Toulon, but forfeiting his alliance with the Guesdists in 1889. This commenced his steady drift away from socialism, leaving the International Workingmen's Association in 1893, and siding with the anti-Dreyfusards during the Dreyfus Affair.From this point on, he consistently emphasised nationalist, over socialist perspectives, and regularly engaged in increasingly anti-Semitic diatribes. Cluseret died on 22 August 1900. See also

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Major General <mask><mask> is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. He served as the program executive officer for the F-22 Program for the United States Air Force from January 2007 to October 1, 2008. During this time he was responsible for all acquisition activities including the awarding of a $5 billion contract extension for the procurement of an additional 60 aircraft. He previously served as commander of the Air Armament Center from December 2005 to January 2007. General <mask> joined the Air Force in 1974 after graduating from the University of Florida ROTC program. He served as an F-4 pilot in Japan before being transferred to the Air Training Command, where he became a T-37 instructor pilot and was named Instructor Pilot of the Year. The general also worked as an F-16 test pilot at General Dynamics and the F-16 Combined Test Force and served as an instructor at the Air Force Test Pilot School.Other assignments have included serving as a military staff assistant for the testing of aircraft and air-to-air missiles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, program manager for the MC-130H Combat Talon, program director of special programs for the Air-to-Air Joint System Program Office, and program executive officer for command and control, and combat support systems. The general has commanded the 4953d Test Squadron, Air Force Security Assistance Center and Air Armament Center. He has over 3,000 flying hours in more than 40 different types of aircraft. He retired from the Air Force on October 1, 2008. Education
 1974 Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering, University of Florida
 1980 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
 1984 Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
 1986 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
 1990 Program Management Course, Fort Belvoir, Va.
 1994 Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
 1997 Executive Program Management Course, Fort Belvoir, Va.
 2001 National Security Decision Making II Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 2002 Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 2003 Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 2003 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Level IV Antiterrorism Executive Seminar, Washington, D.C.
 2004 Architecture Based Systems Engineering for Senior Leaders, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Educational Foundation, Fairfax, Va.
 2005 Program for Senior Managers in Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.2008 Certificate of Process Expertise and Process Mastery, Hammer and Company, Cambridge, Mass. 2008 Certificate of Achievement in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Villanova University, Pa. Assignments
 October 1974 – December 1975, student, undergraduate pilot training, Webb AFB, Texas
 December 1975 – February 1976, student, lead-in fighter training, Holloman AFB, N.M.
 February 1976 – December 1976, student, F-4 Replacement Training Unit, Luke AFB, Ariz.
 December 1976 – August 1978, F-4C Wild Weasel pilot, 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan
 August 1978 – December 1978, student, T-37 pilot instructor training, Randolph AFB, Texas
 December 1978 – March 1981, T-37 instructor pilot, Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. Flight information
 Rating: Command pilot and test pilot
 Flight hours: 3,000
 Aircraft flown: F-4, F-16, A-37, T-37, A-10, T-38, U-6, NT-39, N/C-141, and X-29

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<mask> (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician, serving as House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as House Majority Leader under speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan from 2014 to 2019. He was the U.S. representative for California's 22nd congressional district from 2007 to 2013 and has served in the 23rd district since 2013 after redistricting. <mask> formerly chaired the California Young Republicans and the Young Republican National Federation. He was a representative in the California State Assembly from 2002 to 2006, the last two years as minority leader. He was elected to Congress in 2006. <mask> was elected to House leadership in his second term as Republican Chief Deputy Whip from 2009 to 2011.When Republicans took control of the House in 2011, he became majority whip from 2011 until August 2014, when he was elected majority leader to replace the outgoing Eric Cantor, who was defeated in his primary election. After Republicans lost their majority in the 2018 midterm elections, and Speaker Paul Ryan retired, <mask> was elected minority leader in January 2019, making him the first California Republican to hold the post. As majority leader he was second-in-command to the Speaker; as minority leader, he is the leader of the House Republicans. <mask> was a steady defender of President Donald Trump for the majority of his time as majority leader and minority leader. After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, <mask> supported Trump's position by falsely denying Biden's victory and participating in efforts to overturn the results. Early life and education
<mask> was born on January 26, 1965, in Bakersfield, California, the son of Roberta Darlene (née Palladino), a homemaker, and <mask>, an assistant city fire chief. <mask> is a fourth-generation resident of Kern County.His maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant, and his paternal grandfather was Irish. <mask> is the first Republican in his immediate family, as his parents were members of the Democratic Party. He attended California State University, Bakersfield, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in marketing in 1989 and a Master of Business Administration in 1994. Early political career
<mask> served on the staff of Congressman Bill Thomas from 1987 to 2002. In 1995, he chaired the California Young Republicans. From 1999 to 2001, he chaired the Young Republican National Federation. From the late 1990s until 2000, he was Thomas's district director.<mask> won his first election in 2000, as a Kern Community College District trustee. <mask> was elected to the California State Assembly in 2002. He became the Republican floor leader in 2003. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2006. U.S. House of Representatives

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2006

<mask> entered the Republican primary for California's 22nd District after his former boss, Bill Thomas, retired. He won the three-way Republican primary—the real contest in this heavily Republican district—with 85% of the vote. He won the general election with 70.7% of the vote.2008

<mask> was unopposed for a second term. 2010

No party put up a challenger, and <mask> won a third term with 98.8% of the vote, with opposition coming only from a write-in candidate. 2012

Redistricting before the 2012 election resulted in <mask>'s district being renumbered as the 23rd. It became somewhat more compact, losing its share of the Central Coast while picking up large parts of Tulare County. This district was as heavily Republican as its predecessor, and <mask> won a fourth term with 73.2% of the vote vs. 26.8% for independent, No Party Preference (NPP) opponent, Terry Phillips. The district is based in Bakersfield and includes large sections of Kern and Tulare Counties, as well as part of the Quartz Hill community in northwest Los Angeles County. 2014

In his bid for a fifth term, <mask> faced a Democratic challenger for the first time since his initial run for the seat, Raul Garcia.<mask> was reelected with 74.8% of the vote. 2016

<mask> was reelected to a sixth term in 2016 with 69.2% of the vote in the general election; the Democratic nominee, Wendy Reed, received 30.8%. 2018

<mask> was reelected to a seventh term with 64.3% of the vote to Democratic challenger Tatiana Matta's 35.7%. After Republicans lost their majority in the 2018 elections, <mask> was elected House Minority Leader, fending off a challenge to his right from Jim Jordan of Ohio, 159–43. 2020

<mask> was reelected to an eighth term with 62.1% of the vote, to Democratic challenger and United States Air Force veteran Kim Mangone's 37.9%. Tenure

Committee assignments

 Committee on Financial Services
 Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
 Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit

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Party leadership
 House Republican steering committee
 House Republican chief deputy whip, 2009–2011
 House majority whip, 2011–2014
 House majority leader, 2014–2018
House Minority Leader, 2019–present

Early leadership posts
As a freshman congressman, <mask> was appointed to the Republican Steering committee. Republican leader John Boehner appointed him chair of the Republican platform committee during the committee's meetings in Minneapolis in August 2008, which produced the Republican Party Platform for 2008.He was also one of the three founding members of the GOP Young Guns Program. After the 2008 elections, he was chosen as chief deputy minority whip, the highest-ranking appointed position in the House Republican Conference. His predecessor, Eric Cantor, was named minority whip. House majority whip
On November 17, 2010, the House Republican Conference selected <mask> to be the House majority whip in the 112th Congress. In this post, he was the third-ranking House Republican, behind Speaker John Boehner and majority leader Eric Cantor. In August 2011, <mask> and Cantor led a group of 30 Republican members of Congress to Israel, where some members took part in a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee, including one member—<mask>—who swam nude. When <mask> and Cantor later found out about the swim, they were "furious" and worried about negative news coverage, and "called a members-only meeting the next morning to reprimand the group—both those who swam and those who abstained".In 2012, <mask>'s office reported spending $99,000 on pastries, bottled water, and other food items, making him the highest-spending member of the House in this category. House majority leader
Cantor lost the June 2014 primary for his seat in Congress, and announced he would step down from House leadership at the end of July. <mask> sought to succeed Cantor, and after some speculation that Pete Sessions and Jeb Hensarling would challenge him, both dropped out, leaving <mask> a clear path to become majority leader. On June 13, representative Raul Labrador announced he would also seek the leadership position. On June 19, the Republican Conference elected <mask> majority leader. According to the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, <mask> is the least-tenured majority leader in the history of the House of Representatives. When he assumed the position in July 2014, he had served only seven years, six months and 29 days, the least experience of any floor leader in the House's history by more than a year.<mask> kept four of his predecessor's staff members on his staff when he took over as majority leader, including deputy chief of staff Neil Bradley, who now has served in that role for three majority leaders. <mask> has been under fire for avoiding meetings and town-hall events with constituents in his congressional district for years. His last town hall was in June 2010. He has opted for screened telephone calls since. In December 2017, <mask> voted for the House Republican tax legislation. After the vote, he asked his constituents to "Come February, check your check, because that will be the pay raise of the vote for Donald Trump." Unsuccessful 2015 candidacy for speaker of the House

On September 25, 2015, John Boehner decided to resign as Speaker effective October 30, 2015.Many media outlets speculated that <mask> would likely replace him, and Boehner himself said that <mask> "would make an excellent speaker". On September 28, <mask> formally announced his candidacy. Having held congressional office for less than nine years, <mask> would have been the Speaker with the least time in Congress since 1891. In a September 29, 2015, interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, <mask> was asked what Republicans had accomplished in Congress. He replied by talking about the House of Representatives' special panel investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack (in which Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya). Republicans said the purpose of the government-funded committee was purely to investigate the deaths of four Americans. But <mask> said, "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought." The comment was seen as an admission that the investigation was a partisan political undertaking rather than a substantive inquiry.Some commentators described his remark as a classic "Kinsley gaffe" (defined as when a politician accidentally tells the truth). The remark was also described as "saying the quiet part loud". Several days later, <mask> apologized for the remarks and said the Benghazi panel was not a political initiative. On October 8, 2015, as Republicans were preparing to vote, <mask> unexpectedly dropped out of the race, saying that Republicans needed a fresh face who could unite the caucus and "I am not that guy." He reportedly dropped out after concluding that he did not have the 218 votes that would be required to be elected Speaker. <mask> remained majority leader. The Benghazi gaffe contributed to his decision to withdraw from the race, as <mask> acknowledged in announcing his withdrawal.Previously, Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. had sent a letter to the Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers stating that any candidates for a leadership position with "misdeeds" should withdraw from the race. Jones has said that his comment did not specifically refer to <mask>. House Republican Leader
After the Republicans lost their majority in the 2018 elections, <mask> was elected Minority Leader, fending off a challenge to his right from Jim Jordan of Ohio, 159–43. As Minority Leader he is in charge of the House Republicans. <mask> has been a strong supporter of Donald Trump since 2016. As minority leader, he remained a close Trump ally, keeping the Republican caucus unified in support of Trump and against his impeachment on two articles of impeachment arising from the Trump-Ukraine scandal. <mask> associated with key figures in Trump's effort to enlist the Ukrainian government in discrediting Joe Biden, Trump's political opponent; such figures included Lev Parnas, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and Robert F. Hyde.Like Trump, <mask> supported Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican candidate in 2020 for a U.S. House seat from northwest Georgia; Greene's past racist, anti-Semitic comments and her promotion of QAnon (a far-right conspiracy theory) led other Republicans to distance themselves from her. <mask> did not take steps to thwart Greene's candidacy and did not endorse her opponent in the Republican primary runoff election. After Greene was nominated, <mask> denounced the fringe conspiracy—saying "There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party"—and said that Greene had distanced herself from her earlier statements. In 2020, <mask> was asked about Trump's false claims that Joe Scarborough (an MSNBC host and former Republican congressman) was linked to the death of a staff member; while a few House Republicans criticized Trump for his use of inflammatory and false rhetoric, <mask> declined to take a position. In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, <mask> and House Republicans filed a lawsuit to stop the House of Representatives from allowing remote proxy voting by representatives, a measure that had been introduced under Speaker Nancy Pelosi to prevent the virus's spread in the Capitol. <mask> and the other plaintiffs claimed that a quorum of members had to be physically present in the chamber to conduct business; Pelosi defended the rule as a critical public health measure and pointed to the Constitution authorizing each chamber of Congress to establish its own procedural rules. In August 2020, a federal judge dismissed <mask>'s lawsuit against Pelosi, ruling that the House has "absolute immunity from civil suit" under the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause.In November 2020, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, <mask> falsely insisted on Laura Ingraham's television show that "President Trump won this election"—echoing Trump's own claim—even as vote-counting was ongoing in several states. <mask> insinuated that large-scale voter fraud would lead Trump to lose, saying "Everyone who is listening: Do not be quiet. Do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes." In December 2020, <mask> was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case, on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state. In March 2021, <mask> denied he had supported Trump's false claims of election fraud, even though he had supported Texas v. Pennsylvania.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion". On January 6, 2021, hours after the attack on the Capitol, <mask> voted against certifying Biden's win in two states. Cook Political Report House editor Dave Wasserman later reported that <mask> had told him on several occasions before this vote that he knew Biden had won. He later denied that this was a vote to overturn the election, because Biden would still have won without those two states. <mask> finally recognized Biden as president-elect on January 8, more than two months after the election. A week after the attack, <mask> delivered a speech in which he held Trump partially responsible for the riots. He emphasized that Trump failed to intervene after the initial TV footage, showing the demonstration evolving in a violent assault.He later said that he did not believe Trump had provoked the mob. On January 28, <mask> paid Trump a visit at his Mar-a-Lago residence. Officially the topic was said to be "regaining the lost votes in the midterm elections of 2022", but it was widely reported as an attempt to mend fences with Trump and lessen tensions in the Republican Party. During the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler said that Trump said to <mask> during the ongoing attack on the Capitol by rioters: "Well, <mask>, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are." She wasn't called as a witness but her statement was included in the impeachment documents. In April 2021, before closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial, Maxine Waters said, "I hope we're going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don't, we cannot go away" and need to get "more confrontational".After her comments, <mask> said, "Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis just as she has incited it in the past. If Speaker Pelosi doesn't act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week." Because of her stance on the Capitol riot, her vote to impeach Trump and vocal opposition to his false stolen election narrative, in early 2021 pro-Trump Freedom Caucus House members attempted to remove Liz Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference, the third-ranking position in the Republican House leadership. The initial effort failed, but growing numbers of House Republicans supported her removal; <mask> agreed to a party vote in May, resulting in Cheney's ouster. Hours after the vote, <mask> said, "I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election", but a CNN poll released days earlier found that 70% of Republicans did believe the false stolen election narrative. In October 2021, <mask> pressured Republican political consultants not to work with Cheney or else lose business with other Republicans. On May 18, 2021, <mask> announced that he opposed to the bipartisan agreement in the House to form an independent commission to investigate the Capitol attack.<mask> had asked Representative John Katko, a member of his whip team, to negotiate with Democrats on the caucus's behalf about the commission. <mask> specified to Katko what he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted, and got almost everything he asked for. <mask> also said that the scope of any investigation should include other events of political violence, which was possible with the terms negotiated. <mask> sided with other Republicans who sought to downplay the matter and move on. In June 2021, after Pelosi announced the creation of a select committee to investigate the Capitol attack that would include five Republican members, <mask> threatened to remove Republicans from committee assignments if they participated. In July 2021, the delta variant of the coronavirus prompted the Attending Physician of the United States Congress to reimpose a mask requirement in the House chamber. <mask> called this "a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state", prompting Pelosi to respond to reporters, "he's such a moron."On July 31, 2021, members of Tennessee's Republican congressional delegation gave <mask> a large gavel with the words "Fire Pelosi" inscribed on it. <mask> told them, "it will be hard not to hit her with it, but I

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 will bang it down." In August 2021, after the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol asked telecommunications and social media companies to retain certain records, <mask> declared that if the companies "turn over private information" to the House committee then they would be "in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States" and a future Republican legislative majority would hold them "fully accountable". <mask> did not specify which law the companies would break in this situation. As of October 2021, <mask> had voted in line with President Joe Biden's stated position 15% of the time. On November 18, 2021, and into the early morning of November 19, <mask> gave a record-breaking 8.5-hour speech on the House floor using the "magic minute", forcing a delay in the final vote on the Build Back Better Act. In the speech, <mask> made numerous false claims.He also devoted part of the speech to blaming President Biden for having failed to end the COVID-19 pandemic. The New York Times called <mask>'s claim "audacious" given that the Republican Party had spent months flouting mask mandates, opposing vaccine requirements, and undermining vaccination drives. Political positions

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In 2003, while minority leader in the state assembly, <mask> "support[ed] most abortion rights, but oppose[d] spending tax dollars on abortions". But by 2015, <mask> was, according to The Washington Post, "a staunch anti-abortion-rights advocate". <mask> supports the Hyde Amendment (a provision, annually renewed by Congress since 1976, that bans federal funds for abortion), and in 2011 co-sponsored a bill, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act", to make the Hyde Amendment permanent. This bill was especially controversial because it provided an exemption for funding terminations of pregnancies caused by only "forcible rape", which prompted abortion-rights activists to call the bill a redefinition of rape. <mask> opposes a California state law that requires health insurance plans "to treat abortion coverage and maternity coverage neutrally and provide both" on the grounds that the law violates the Weldon Amendment and other federal laws.<mask> has voted to strip about $500 million in federal funding for Planned Parenthood. COVID-19
On September 17, 2020, <mask> voted against House Resolution 908 to condemn racism against Asian-Americans related to the COVID-19 pandemic. He said the resolution was "a waste of time", and "At the heart of this resolution is the absurd notion that referring to the virus as a Wuhan virus or the China virus is the same as contributing to violence against Asian Americans." Donald Trump

<mask> was an early supporter of Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, saying that Trump's "intensity" could help the Republicans win House seats. <mask> also suggested in a private recording with GOP House leadership in 2016 that Putin pays Trump, which <mask> said was a joke gone wrong. After the 2018 midterm elections, in which Democrats won a majority in the House, <mask> said that Democrats should not investigate Trump. He described investigations of Trump as a "small agenda" and that "America's too great of a nation to have such a small agenda."He said that Trump had already been investigated "for a long period of time". <mask> and other House Republicans investigated Hillary Clinton for years over the 2012 Benghazi attack. In 2015, <mask> said that the investigation, which found no evidence of wrongdoing on Clinton's part, had hurt poll numbers. In 2019, <mask> defended government officials spending money at resorts Trump owned. He said there was no difference between government officials spending money at hotels Trump owned and other hotels. In October 2019, <mask> said "there's nothing that the president did wrong" in regard to Trump requesting that the Ukrainian president start an investigation into 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. <mask> added: "The president wasn't investigating a campaign rival.The president was trying to get to the bottom, just as every American would want to know, why did we have this Russia hoax that actually started within Ukraine." That same month, when Trump said "China should start an investigation into the Bidens", <mask> shortly thereafter went on Fox & Friends to say, "You watch what the president said—he's not saying China should investigate." Capitol riot and reaction

In 2021, of the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, <mask> said that "as a nation", "we all have some responsibility" for the event. <mask> had been among those Republicans who in the weeks before the attack on the Capitol had spread false claims about the validity of the presidential election. On January 13, <mask> said that Trump "bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding". But <mask> did not vote to impeach Trump for a second time, instead calling for a censure resolution against Trump for his role in the attack.On January 21, <mask> said he did not think that Trump "provoked" the attack. Two days later, <mask> said that Trump "had some responsibility when it came to the response", and then stressed his original position that all Americans have "some responsibility". Republicans have criticized <mask> for inconsistent statements about Trump after the attack. Despite the condemnation, <mask> visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort to discuss the future of the Republican Party. <mask> released a statement that read in part, "Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022". It was reported on February 12, that <mask> called Trump asking for help during the insurrection. Trump refused to send the National Guard, saying, "Well, <mask>, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are".<mask> responded, "Who the fuck do you think you are talking to?" This was reported to CNN by multiple Republican members of Congress, including Jaime Herrera Beutler and Anthony Gonzalez. On May 19, 2021, <mask> and all the other Republican House leaders in the 117th Congress voted against establishing the January 6 commission. Thirty-five Republican House members and all 217 Democrats present voted to establish such a commission. Environment

<mask> has been frequently at odds with environmental groups; the League of Conservation Voters has given him a lifetime score of 3%, as of 2015. <mask> does not accept the scientific consensus on climate change, as of 2014. He was a major opponent of President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas from coal-fired power plants.He has opposed regulations on methane leaks from fossil-fuel drilling facilities, calling them "bureaucratic and unnecessary." In 2015, <mask> opposed the U.S.'s involvement in global efforts to combat climate change; as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference began, he announced that he would oppose an international agreement on climate change. In 2017, <mask> led House Republican efforts to use the Congressional Review Act to undo a number of environmental regulations enacted during the Obama administration. <mask> once supported the federal wind-energy production tax credit, but opposed its extension in 2014. In 2011, <mask> was the primary author of the "Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act" (H.R. 1581), legislation that would remove protected status designation from 60 million acres of public lands. Under the bill, protections for roadless and wilderness study areas would be eliminated, and vast swaths of land opened to new industrial development (such as logging, mineral extraction, and fossil fuel extraction).Conservationist groups and former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt strongly criticized the bill. More recently, as House minority leader, <mask> proposed several environmental bills designed to address climate change that have been called "narrow" and "modest". They include provisions to extend a tax credit for carbon capture technologies and to plant trees. Responses from Republican representatives were mixed. Conservative groups including the Club for Growth, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the American Energy Alliance opposed the measures, while others, such as ClearPath, supported them. <mask> believes that younger voters are worried about climate change and cautioned that Republicans are risking their viability in elections over the long term by ignoring or denying the issue. He has said, "We've got to actually do something different than we've done to date [concerning climate change].For a 28-year-old, the environment is the No. 1 and No. 2 issue." Finance
In 2014, <mask> opposed the renewal of the charter of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, as he expects the private sector to take over the role. Foreign policy
<mask> received campaign donations from Saudi Arabia's lobbyists. He is the number one recipient of campaign contributions from Saudi lobbying firms in Congress. On June 15, 2016, <mask> told a group of Republicans, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.Swear to God." Paul Ryan reminded colleagues the meeting was off the record, saying, "No leaks. This is how we know we're a real family here." When asked about the comment, <mask>'s spokesman said, "the idea that <mask> would assert this is absurd and false." After a tape of the comment was made public in May 2017, <mask> claimed it was "a bad attempt at a joke". In 2019, <mask> had threatened to take "action" against two new Muslim congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who have sharply criticized the Israeli government's policies in the Palestinian territories and embraced the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. <mask> said that if Democrats "do not take action I think you'll see action from myself".<mask> voiced support for Hong Kong protesters. He wrote that "the NBA seems more worried about losing business than standing up for freedom." In January 2020, after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, <mask> criticized Nancy Pelosi for "defending" Soleimani. <mask> said he supported Israel's planned annexation of the West Bank. He signed a letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that reaffirms "the unshakeable alliance between the United States and Israel". During Trump's presidency, <mask> praised the administration's plans to leave Afghanistan. When the Biden administration withdrew from Afghanistan, <mask> assailed Biden for the manner and execution of the withdrawal.Health care
As House majority leader, <mask> led efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare). In March 2017, the House Republican repeal legislation, the American Health Care Act, was pulled from the floor minutes before a scheduled vote. After changes made during an internal Republican debate, the bill narrowly passed the House, 217–213, in a May 2017 party-line vote. The House Republican leadership's decision to hold a vote on the legislation before receiving a budget-impact analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was controversial. The CBO subsequently issued a report estimating that the bill would cause 23 million Americans to lose health coverage and would reduce the deficit by $119 billion over ten years. <mask> and other House Republican leaders defended the legislation. Hate crimes
<mask> opposed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, which added sexual orientation, gender identity, and disabilities as protected classes under existing federal hate crimes law. He voted against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. Immigration
Throughout 2018, <mask> opposed efforts to codify the legal status of DREAMers after Trump suspended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which provided temporary stay for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors. <mask> opposed efforts to codify the DACA protection because he thought it would depress turnout among the Republican base in the 2018 elections. According to Politico, it was thought a DACA-type bill could have also undermined <mask>'s chances of becoming House Speaker after Paul Ryan retired from Congress, as it would have made it harder for him to attract the support of hard-line conservatives. In July 2018, House Democrats called for a floor vote that sought to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). House GOP leaders scrapped the latter and called for the House to vote on a resolution authored by <mask> and Clay Higgins to support ICE.House Speaker Paul Ryan's spokeswoman said Democrats "will now have the chance to stand with the majority of Americans who support ICE and vote for this resolution", or otherwise follow "extreme voices on the far left calling for abolishment of an agency that protects us". In June 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the holding centers for undocumented immigrants at the Mexico–United States border to "concentration camps". <mask> strongly criticized her words, saying they showed disrespect for Holocaust victims. LGBT rights
<mask> was a supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which barred federal recognition of same-sex marriage and banned same-sex couples from receiving federal spousal benefits; after Obama instructed the Justice Department not to defend the law in court, <mask> supported House Republicans' legal defense of the law. When the DOMA case reached the Supreme Court in 2013, <mask> joined Boehner and Eric Cantor in signing a brief urging the Court to uphold the law. Cannabis
<mask> has a D- rating from National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for his voting record on cannabis-related matters. He voted against allowing veterans' access to medical marijuana, if legal in their state and recommended by their Veterans Health Administration doctor.Other issues
In August 2018, <mask> co-signed a letter spearheaded by John Garamendi, Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson calling on Trump to "send more federal aid to fight" the wildfires in California. The letter in effect requests a "major disaster declaration" across several counties affected by the fires; such a designation would "free up more federal relief" aimed at local governments and individuals affected. <mask> introduced the FORWARD Act in 2018, which "would provide $95 million in research funding for valley fever and other fungal diseases". The bill provides $5 million for a "blockchain pilot program", facilitating sharing data between doctors and scientists researching such diseases. It would also fund $8 million in matching grant money to be awarded every year for five years to local groups applying for research grants, as well as $10 million each year for five years to CARB-X, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services public-private partnership. On October 23, 2018, <mask> tweeted that Democratic donors businessman George Soros, businessman Tom Steyer and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg were trying to "buy" the upcoming election. He tweeted this a day after a pipe bomb was delivered to Soros's home.Steyer said <mask>'s tweet was a "straight-up antisemitic move" because the three Democrats are Jewish. A vandal threw rocks at <mask>'s office and stole equipment from it, reportedly in reaction to <mask>'s tweet. <mask> later deleted the tweet but refused to apologize. Beginning with his time as a Dublin city councilor, Eric Swalwell was targeted by a Chinese woman believed to be a clandestine officer of China's Ministry of State Security. <mask> called Swalwell, who served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a "national security threat". Claims of social media censorship
<mask> claims that social media platforms such as Twitter actively censor conservative politicians and their supporters. He called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify before Congress on the matter.On August 17, 2018, <mask> submitted a tweet to suggest that conservatives were being censored by showing a screen capture of conservative commentator Laura Ingraham's Twitter account with a sensitive content warning on one of her tweets. This warning was due to <mask>'s own Twitter settings rather than any censorship from the platform. <mask> also suggested that Google was biased against Republicans due to short-lived vandalism of the English Wikipedia entry on the California Republican Party being automatically indexed in Google search results. Personal life
<mask> and his wife, Judy, have two children. They are lifelong residents of Bakersfield. He is a former board member for the Community Action Partnership of Kern. In October 2015, <mask> was accused of having an affair with Representative Renee Ellmers.He had unexpectedly dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House shortly before the allegations surfaced. Days earlier, Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. had sent Republican Conference chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers a letter stating that any candidates for a leadership position with "misdeeds" should withdraw from the race. Both <mask> and Ellmers have denied the allegations. An October 2018 investigation documented how William "Bill" Wages, of <mask>'s brother-in-law's company Vortex Construction, has received $7.6 million since 2000 in no-bid and other prime federal contracts. The work was mostly for construction projects at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in <mask>'s Bakersfield-based district, and Naval Air Station Lemoore in California's Kings County. See also
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019)

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Early career
<mask> started his career in 2007. He fought mainly for Californian promotions such as King of the Cage and Gladiator Challenge. After four consecutive victories, <mask> signed with Strikeforce. Strikeforce
<mask> faced Herman Terrado on April 9, 2011, at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley.He had his first career's defeat via KO in the first round. Bellator MMA
<mask> made his debut against Rudy Bears on October 8, 2011, at Bellator 53. He won via unanimous decision (29-28, 29–28, 29–28). <mask> faced Charlie Rader on May 25, 2012, at Bellator 70. He won via KO in the second round. <mask> faced Dom O'Grady on October 12, 2012, at Bellator 76. He lost via split decision (29-28 O'Grady, 29-28 <mask>, 29-28 O'Grady).Fight Master: Bellator MMA
On May 6, 2013, it was announced that <mask> would be featured as a participant on Bellator MMA reality TV show Fight Master. In the first episode, <mask> faced Strikeforce and Bellator veteran Darryl Cobb in a qualifying round for an opportunity to choose one of the four coaches of the show to work with. <mask> won via unanimous decision after three rounds and following his victory, he selected Randy Couture to be his coach. In the seventh episode, <mask> faced two-time NCAA Division I All-American Eric Bradley in the round of 16 of the tournament. He was defeated via unanimous decision after two rounds. Return to Bellator
<mask> faced Belal Muhammad at Bellator 112 on March 14, 2014. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.<mask> faced Kyle Bolt at Bellator 131 on November 15, 2014. He won the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> was expected to face Ben Reiter at Bellator 137 on May 15, 2015. However, <mask> pulled out of the fight due to injury and was replaced by Benji Radach. <mask> eventually returned to face Emiliano Sordi at Bellator 141 on August 28, 2015. He won the fight via TKO after his opponent's corner stopped the fight between rounds one and two. <mask> faced Ben Reiter at Bellator 156 on June 17, 2016.He lost a one-sided unanimous decision. <mask> faced Hisaki Kato on October 21, 2016, at Bellator 162. He lost the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Andre Fialho at Bellator 181 on July 14, 2017. After a back-and-forth contest, in which both fighters were able to land significant strikes, hurting their opponent, ultimately <mask> lost the bout via split decision. <mask> fought Kendall Grove at Bellator 193 on January 26, 2018. He won the fight by split decision.<mask> faced Logan Storley on August 17, 2018, at Bellator 204. He lost the fight via technical knockout in round two. On May 3, 2021, it was announced that <mask> was no longer under contract with Bellator.

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