Jonathan Paton
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| Member of the Arizona Senate from the 30th district |
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In office 2009–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Bee |
| Succeeded by | Frank Antenori |
| Member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 30th district |
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In office 2005–2009 |
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June 10, 1971 Tucson, Arizona |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Tucson, Arizona |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona (B.A., M.A.) |
| Profession | Businessman, Military Officer |
| Religion | Christian |
| Awards | Army Achievement Medal, Army Commendation Medal |
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| Service/branch | United States Army Reserve |
| Years of service | 1999-present |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Iraq War |
Jonathan Paton (born June 10, 1971) is a former Arizona Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona's 8th District and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Paton was first elected to southern Arizona's Legislative District 30 as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives in 2004. He won reelection and began his second term in February 2007. In 2008, he was elected to the Arizona Senate, again representing Legislative District 30. On January 17, 2010, Paton announced he would be challenging Democratic U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. He subsequently resigned from the state Senate to focus his efforts on campaigning for Congress. Paton lost in the 2010 Republican primary and endorsed his former opponent, Jesse Kelly. He ran for Congress again in 2012, this time in Arizona's newly formed 1st Congressional District, ending in close defeat against Democratic opponent Ann Kirkpatrick.
Paton was born in Tucson, Arizona. He grew up on the city's East Side. He graduated from Sabino High School in 1989. During his senior year in high school Paton worked at Marie Callender's restaurant as a busboy and saved up the funds to go to Germany as a Rotary exchange student. He returned home and began his studies at the University of Arizona. In the coming years he would spend more years overseas studying in Almaty, Kazakhstan with the Sister Cities Program, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet in Munich as a Rotary Foundation Scholar and in Moscow through a program administered by the University of Arizona. He also interned with the Arizona State Senate in 1995. Paton graduated from the University of Arizona summa cum laude and with honors in German and Russian in 1996. He continued on to the graduate program in German at the University of Arizona.
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