PERSON: Patrick J Colbeck

United States Senate

Former Member of the Michigan Senate

Patrick Colbeck (Republican Party) was a member of the Michigan State Senate, representing District 7. Colbeck assumed office on January 1, 2011. Colbeck left office on January 1, 2019.

Colbeck (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Michigan. Colbeck lost in the Republican primary on August 7, 2018.

Colbeck is a former Republican member of the Michigan State Senate, representing District 7 from 2011 to 2018. Colbeck previously served as majority caucus chair.

Colbeck was unable to run for re-election in 2018 to the Michigan State Senate because of term limits.

Colbeck was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Michigan. Colbeck was one of 17 delegates from Michigan bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention.[1] Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates. For more on what happened to his delegates, see this page.

Biography
Colbeck earned his B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan. He also studied at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, at Michigan State University, and at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. He worked in the aerospace, defense, pharmaceutical, healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, information technology and financial services fields. He also worked as an independent management consultant and president of Perspective Shifts, LLC. In 2007, Patrick formed Tek Made Easy, a web hosting services company.

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