Jonathan Paton

Jonathan Paton (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who served in both houses of the Arizona State Legislature. He served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, and participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a Republican, he was first elected to represent Arizona's 30th legislative district in the Arizona House of Representatives in 2004. In 2008, he was elected to the Arizona Senate from the same district.

On January 17, 2010, Paton announced he would be challenging Democratic U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords in that year's election. He subsequently resigned from the state senate to focus his efforts on campaigning for Congress. Paton lost in the 2010 Republican primary and endorsed his former opponent, Jesse Kelly. He ran for Congress again in 2012, this time in Arizona's newly redrawn 1st congressional district, ending in close defeat against Democratic opponent Ann Kirkpatrick. Provided by Wikipedia