{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mike Keown | image = | image_size = | caption = | state_house = Georgia | district = 173rd | term_start = 2004 | term_end = 2010 | predecessor = | successor = Darlene K. Taylor | party = Republican | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1954|5|11}} | birth_place = Canton, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Shorter University,<br>Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,<br>New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary | profession = Pastor, prison chaplain | spouse = Kathy | children = Two | website = }}
'''Michael Huel Keown''' (born May 11, 1954) is an American and a Republican former member of the Georgia House of Representatives from District 173, first elected in 2004. In 2010, he did not seek reelection and was the Republican nominee in the 2010 U.S. House of Representatives elections, 2nd District. Keown was defeated by incumbent Democrat Sanford Bishop in a close election.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mike Keown |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Keown |access-date=2025-12-11 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref>
Keown campaigned for the Republican nomination for Georgia State Senate, District 11 in a special election in 2013 following the resignation of John Bulloch. He was one of the top two vote-getters in the January 2013 election, but lost in the February 2013 run-off to Dean Burke.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101023100050/http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/house/bios/keownMike/keownMikeBio.htm Representative Mike Keown] ''official Georgia House of Representatives site'' *[http://www.mikekeown.com/ Mike Keown for Congress] ''official campaign site'' * {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=31915 | fec=H0GA02217 | congress= }}<!-- Links formerly displayed via the CongLinks template: * [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/uniquecandidate.phtml?uc=4729 Financial information (state office)] at the National Institute for Money in State Politics * [http://www.ontheissues.org/GA/Mike_Keown.htm Issue positions and quotes] at On the Issues * --> *[http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?id=GA02&cycle=2010 Campaign contributions] from OpenSecrets.org
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