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Jake Duesenberg is a rising star in the conservative movement and a commissioned officer in the United States Army.

Biography
Jake’s political influence started in college at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He was a leading voice for the conservative movement on campus. Under his leadership, the UWRF College Republicans grew in membership by 400% in his first year as the chairman. Jake Duesenberg also was a notable columnist in the student paper, co-hosted a popular radio show with Andy Parrish, and often debated democrats and socialists on campus television. In 2005, Jake was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army infantry. Throughout the next three years he served in the National Guard while also running a branch office for Edward Jones as a financial advisor. His civilian career was put on a hold many times for deployments to the U.S./Mexican border, the Balkans, and Iraq.

Jake is an outspoken critic of the modern Republican party. He believes that the modern party has abandoned it’s smaller government/free market principles, which has led to recent failures in the ’06 and ’08 elections. In 2008, he publicly acknowledged his non-support for John McCain’s bid for the White House.

Jake’s ancestry is linked to the Duesenberg car family, a popular early American automobile.