Charles S. "Chuck" DeVore is a U.S. politician, currently serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing the 70th District, which includes portions of Orange County. DeVore serves as Vice Chair of the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee and is also a member of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and Veterans Affairs Committee. On November 12, 2008, DeVore announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in 2010, but in the Republican primary on June 8, 2010, DeVore finished third, receiving eighteen percent of the vote. Born in Seattle,... Washington, DeVore moved to California when he was 13 years old. From 1980 to 1983, he attended California State University, Fullerton, paying for college by working industrial construction as union carpenter . DeVore earned an ROTC scholarship to attend Claremont McKenna College, where he earned his B.A. in Strategic Studies with honors in 1985. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo. Married in 1988, DeVore and his wife, Diane, have two daughters, Jennie, born in 1991, and Amy, born in 1997.
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