Steven Horsford
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | District Established |
| Succeeded by | Cresent Hardy |
| Member of the Nevada Senate from the 4th district |
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In office 2004–2012 |
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| Preceded by | Joe Neal |
| Succeeded by | Kelvin Atkinson |
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Steven Alexander Horsford April 29, 1973 Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Sonya Horsford |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Alma mater | coursework at University of Nevada, Reno |
| Profession | business executive |
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Steven Horsford Representative Steven Horsford |
Steven Alexander Horsford (born April 29, 1973) is an American politician who was the United States Representative for Nevada's 4th congressional district from 2013 to 2015. Horsford previously served in the Nevada Senate, representing Clark County's 4th Senate District from 2005 to 2012. He also served as Nevada's first African-American state senate Majority Leader and was the first African American to represent Nevada in Congress. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
After his election defeat in 2014, Horsford declined to run again in 2016. Instead, he became an executive with business and marketing consulting firm R&R Partners.
Horsford was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Ed W. Clark High School in Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno, where he studied political science and communications but has not yet completed his degree requirements to graduate.
Horsford was the Chief Executive Officer of the Culinary Training Academy (CTA). As a joint management and labor partnership between 26 major properties on the Las Vegas Strip and the Culinary and Bartenders Unions, CALV prepares more than 3,500 students annually for positions in the hospitality industry.
Horsford worked on the Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board (which later became Workforce Connections) from early 2000 until June 2004. The group organization is a “group of elected and highly motivated individuals whose mission is to get Southern Nevada’s workforce back on its feet through partnering with a wide array of employers and agencies dedicated to investing in the future of our communities.” The organization “distributes funds earmarked for training, apprenticeships and other viable approaches designed to couple the right workers with the right employers.”
He gave up his position on the Board to avoid any appearance of impropriety associated with funds granted to Nevada Partners, a nonprofit he directed.
In 2004, incumbent Democratic State Senator Joe Neal, of Clark County's 4th Senate District, decided to retire in order to run for a seat on the Clark County Commission. Horsford ran and defeated Republican Mabel Florence Lucier 72%–28%. He was only the fourth African American to serve as a State Senator since the Nevada Legislature first convened in 1864. In 2008, he won re-election to a second term with 74% of the vote.
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