Grant Burgoyne
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| Member of the Idaho Senate from District 16 |
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Assumed office December 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Les Bock |
| Member of the Idaho House of Representatives from District 16 Seat A |
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In office December 1, 2008 – December 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Margaret Henbest |
| Succeeded by | John McCrostie |
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August 9, 1953 Ketchikan, Alaska |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Christy Burgoyne |
| Residence | Boise, Idaho |
| Alma mater |
University of Idaho University of Kansas School of Law |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | burgoyneforsenate |
Grant T. Burgoyne was born August 9, 1953 in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is a Boise, Idaho attorney and a Democratic State Senator representing Idaho's District 16.
Burgoyne’s father, Richard Burgoyne, and his mother, Florence Burgoyne (nee King), are deceased. Burgoyne’s father was a native of Des Moines, Iowa and a United States Coast Guard officer. His mother was a native of Pocatello, Idaho and a high school math teacher. Burgoyne grew up primarily in the San Francisco suburb of Daly City, California, and in Honolulu, Hawaii. Burgoyne is an only child. His maternal grandfather, Raymond King (deceased), was a Union Pacific Railroad engineer in Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho, and his maternal grandmother Bertha King (nee Olson; deceased) was a school teacher before turning her attention to raising her three children. Burgoyne’s maternal great grandparents, Nels and Johanna Olson homesteaded in the New Sweden, Idaho area in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
In 1978, Burgoyne married Boise native Christy DeMeyer. They have been married for 38 years. They have two daughters and three grandchildren. Christy is a teacher and school administrator.
Burgoyne graduated from Westmoor High School in Daly City, California in 1971, and was student body president. He earned his bachelor's degree in history at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho in 1975, and was a student senator. Burgoyne earned his law degree at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas in 1988.
Upon graduation from college, Burgoyne accepted a position with then Idaho Secretary of State Pete T. Cenarrusa. Burgoyne held two other positions of increasing responsibility with the State of Idaho before attending, and graduating from, law school. He then entered private practice in Boise, eventually joining in the formation of the Boise law firm of Mauk & Burgoyne in 1995. He was the firm’s managing partner from 1997 through 2013. His legal practice focused on civil litigation, employment and labor law, civil rights, personal injury and commercial law. Burgoyne and his firm were awarded Martindale-Hubbel's prestigious "AV" peer rating, signifying preeminent levels of professionalism and ethical standards in the legal profession. He was also recognized as one Idaho’s top lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers Association in 2012. Burgoyne left the firm in 2015 to focus more attention on his work as an Idaho Legislator and to establish a mediation and arbitration legal practice.
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