Senator patrick colbeck biography books

American politician

Patrick J. Colbeck is an American engineer, author, and politician. He is a former Republican member of the Michigan Senate, having represented a northwestern portion of Wayne County from 2011 to 2019.

After reaching the two-term limit in the Michigan Senate, Colbeck unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan in 2018, where he came in third, receiving 13 percent of the vote.^[1]

Early life

Colbeck was born on October 7, 1965, in Dearborn, Michigan.

He is a graduate of Detroit Catholic Central High School. He later graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1987 and a Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1988.^[2] He went on to study Life Sciences for a summer at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.^{[citation needed]}

Colbeck was employed by Boeing as a Senior Design Engineer respon