Ron Corbett

{{Infobox officeholder | name = Ron Corbett | office = Mayor of Cedar Rapids | term_start = January 2010 | term_end = January 2018 | predecessor = Kay Halloran | successor = Brad Hart | office2 = Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives | term_start2 = 1995 | term_end2 = 2000 | predecessor2 = Harold Van Maanen | successor2 = Brent Siegrist | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|10|12}} | birth_place = Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | children = 5 | education = Cornell College {{small|(BA)}} | website = {{URL|roncorbett.com|Official website}} }} '''Ron Corbett''' (born October 12, 1960) is an American politician and former mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.<ref name="mayor page">{{cite web|url=http://www.cedar-rapids.org/city-council/mayor-council/Mayor/Pages/default.aspx|title=Ron Corbett Mayor|publisher=City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa|accessdate=22 August 2010}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Corbett was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1960. In 1974, his family moved to Iowa and he later graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1983.<ref name="corbettgazette">{{cite web|url=http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/government/2009/10/25/ron-corbett-wants-to-get-city-back-on-track|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124153252/http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/government/2009/10/25/ron-corbett-wants-to-get-city-back-on-track|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 24, 2013|title=Ron Corbett: Wants to get city back on track|date=Oct 25, 2009|publisher=GazetteOnline.com|accessdate=22 August 2010}}</ref>

==Career== After graduation, Corbett worked for The Equitable Life Insurance Company as an agent for ten years. In 1986 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, where he served 7 terms. He was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999.<ref>[http://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=953 Ron Corbett]</ref> He then resigned his House seat to become president of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.<ref name="mayor page"/><ref name="corbettgazette"/> He left that position for Cedar Rapids-based international trucking firm CRST, working directly under executive director John Smith.

He was elected mayor of Cedar Rapids in 2009 with 62% of the vote.<ref name="cornell college">{{cite web|url=http://news.cornellcollege.edu/2009/11/04/cornell-alumnus-elected-mayor-of-cedar-rapids/|title=Cornell alumnus elected mayor of Cedar Rapids|date=November 4, 2009|publisher=Cornell College|accessdate=22 August 2010}}</ref><ref name="smith">{{cite web|url=http://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2009/11/04/corbett-leads|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123221337/http://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2009/11/04/corbett-leads|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 23, 2013|title=Corbett will be Cedar Rapids mayor|last=Smith|first=Rick|date=Nov 4, 2009|publisher=GazetteOnline.com|accessdate=22 August 2010}}</ref> He was reelected to another four-year term in 2013. In December 2016, he announced that he would not seek reelection for mayor of Cedar Rapids but would instead consider a run for the Republican nomination for governor of Iowa in 2018.<ref name=Dec2016Morelli>{{cite news | last = Morelli | first = B. A. | title = Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett will not seek re-election, fans flames of gubernatorial run: 'I want to see how things play out over the next few months,' he says | url = http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/cedar-rapids-mayor-ron-corbett-to-discuss-future-plans-20161219 | newspaper = The Gazette | location = Cedar Rapids, Iowa | date = December 19, 2016 | accessdate = March 9, 2017}}</ref>

In 2015, he resigned from CRST and launched Engage Iowa, a conservative think tank of which he serves as president.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Mayor Ron Corbett launches 'conservative think tank' {{!}} The Gazette|url = http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/mayor-ron-corbett-launches-conservative-think-tank-20150827|website = The Gazette|access-date = 2016-01-19}}</ref> Its first policy initiative, on water quality and state tax reform, was introduced in November 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Corbett's Engage Iowa pushes flat income tax, clean water {{!}} The Gazette|url = http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/corbetts-engage-iowa-pushes-flat-income-tax-clean-water-20151117|website = The Gazette|access-date = 2016-01-19}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |- |- Cedar Rapids Mayoral election 2009 | Ron Corbett || 62.3% || 14,642 |- | Brian Fagan|| 35.7% || 8,385 |- | P.T Larson || 1.8% ||421 |}

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==External links== *[http://www.cedar-rapids.org/local_government/city_council/mayor_and_city_council/mayor.php Corbett's city of Cedar Rapids page]

{{s-start}} {{Succession box | before = Kay Halloran | title = Mayor of Cedar Rapids | after = Brad Hart|years = 2010–2018}} {{s-end}}

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