Mark Pocan

Mark Pocan started delivering campaign leaflets at eight for his father, a Kenosha alderman.¹ He later moved to Madison for college, earned a journalism degree and opened a union printing company.¹ Pocan and his husband, Phil, married in Canada in 2006 and live in Wisconsin's Town of Vermont.¹

His college Democratic organizing preceded election to the Dane County Board, where he served three terms.¹ In 1998, he won the Wisconsin Assembly seat Tammy Baldwin vacated when she went to Congress.¹ After fourteen years in the Assembly, he succeeded Baldwin again, entering the U.S. House in 2013 as she moved to the Senate.¹

Pocan now serves on the Appropriations Committee, including its subcommittees handling labor, education, health and human services, financial services and general government.² He also cochairs the congressional Equality and Labor caucuses and is a former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.²

His policy priorities include stronger organizing and pension rights, clean energy investment, higher wages and protecting Medicare and Social Security.¹ He also supports public education and assistance that helps people through illness, unemployment and disability.¹ The Democrat is the only candidate printed for Wisconsin's 2nd District on the official November listing, with no Republican nominee in that field.³