Erik Sten
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Erik Sten is a former City Commissioner in Portland, Oregon
, United States
. He was first elected to Commissioner Position No. 2 in 1996, in a campaign featuring hundreds of volunteers, defeating Chuck Duffy. He ran successful campaigns for re-election in 1998, 2002, and 2006.
Sten was raised in Portland where he attended Irvington Elementary School, Fernwood Middle School, and Grant High School
. He graduated from Stanford University
in 1989 with a BA in English. He currently lives in Northeast Portland with his wife, Marnie, and son, Nicholas.
Sten was a founding member of X-PAC, a group of politically-minded young citizens, in the mid-1990s, and has participated heavily in the Oregon Bus Project, a similar group formed in the 2000s.
He was also a driving force behind Portland's publicly-financed elections
system.
Sten was named as one of Oregon's 15 most influential people in 2005.
He resigned from his position April 4, 2008 and replaced by Nick Fish.
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
, United States
United States
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. He was first elected to Commissioner Position No. 2 in 1996, in a campaign featuring hundreds of volunteers, defeating Chuck Duffy. He ran successful campaigns for re-election in 1998, 2002, and 2006.
Sten was raised in Portland where he attended Irvington Elementary School, Fernwood Middle School, and Grant High School
Grant High School (Oregon)
Ulysses S. Grant High School is a public high school in the Grant Park neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the largest high school in the Portland Public Schools district. Three movies have been filmed at the school—Mr. Holland's Opus and Nearing Grace , and the made for T.V...
. He graduated from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1989 with a BA in English. He currently lives in Northeast Portland with his wife, Marnie, and son, Nicholas.
Sten was a founding member of X-PAC, a group of politically-minded young citizens, in the mid-1990s, and has participated heavily in the Oregon Bus Project, a similar group formed in the 2000s.
He was also a driving force behind Portland's publicly-financed elections
Clean elections
"Clean Elections" is a term used to describe a particular system of government financing of political campaigns, in which the government provides a grant to candidates who agree to limit their and private fundraising efforts and limit their campaign-spending.- In the United States :Clean Election...
system.
Sten was named as one of Oregon's 15 most influential people in 2005.
He resigned from his position April 4, 2008 and replaced by Nick Fish.