Jack Timothy Riggs is a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 politician from Idaho

Idaho

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. He served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho

Lieutenant Governor of Idaho

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 from 2001 to 2003.

Politics

Riggs is a physician

Physician

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 from Coeur d'Alene

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Coeur d'Alene is the largest city and county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coeur d'Alene has the second largest metropolitan area in the state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census the population of Coeur...

. He was appointed lieutenant governor by Governor Dirk Kempthorne

Dirk Kempthorne

Dirk Arthur Kempthorne , was the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, who served under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009. A Republican, Kempthorne previously served as the 30th Governor and as a U.S. Senator from Idaho...

 in January 2001 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of longtime Lieutenant Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter

C. L. Otter

Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter is the 32nd and current Governor of Idaho since January 2007 and is a member of the Republican Party. Otter previously represented the state's First Congressional District....

, who won a seat in the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 in the 2000 election. Previously Riggs served in the Idaho Legislature

Idaho Legislature

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 as a member of the Idaho State Senate.

Riggs ran for lieutenant governor in 2002 but was defeated by state senator Jim Risch

Jim Risch

James Elroy "Jim" Risch is a Republican politician, rancher, and attorney from Ada County, currently serving as the junior United States Senator from Idaho. He previously served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Idaho.-Early life:Risch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

in the Republican primary. He currently serves as member of the Idaho State Board of Health and Welfare.

Business

Jack Riggs has served as CEO of Pita Pit USA, Inc., which acquired The Pita Pit system in the U.S. in April 2005, since the company's inception.