Education
He graduated from Marinette High School in 1982, has studied at the University of Wisconsin-Marinette, and worked in the restaurant industry for over twelve years, eventually becoming co-owner/operator of his own establishment.
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John Nygren
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At the beginning of the 2013–2014 Legislature Nygren was named the Assembly Company-Chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance. Nygren is a fourth generation resident of Northeast Wisconsin. In 1998 he started work at Great Lakes Financial Management Group selling insurance and other financial services.
Nygren was very involved with the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
He served as Marinette"s Chapter President, the Regional Director for Northeast Wisconsin, Wisconsin State President, and the United States National President. Nygren served as the Chairman of the Marinette County Republican Party, and served on the City of Marinette Recreation and Planning Board from 2003-2006.
In the September 2006 primary election to succeed fellow Republican John Gard for the 89th District (Gard was running for Congress), Nygren narrowly defeated Gary Drzewiecki, with 2777 votes to Drzewiecki"s 2740, and went on in November to defeat Democrat Randy Koehn (a Marinette High School teacher, as is Nygren"s wife Maggie), 11,844 to 10,011. He was assigned to the standing committees on insurance, education, health and health care reform.
And jobs and the economy
He was unopposed in the 2008 Republican primary, again faced Koehn in the general election, and again defeated him, 14,814 to 12,839.
In 2010 he was again unopposed in his primary, and defeated Democrat Bob Orwig by 15,788 to 7,520. 2011 run for state Senate
In 2011, Nygren sought to run against incumbent Democratic state senator Dave Hansen, who was the subject of a recall election. But the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board ruled that he was two signatures short of the necessary 400 signatures on his nomination petition, and would not be on the ballot.
2012 election
In 2012 Nygren was unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated Abrams Town Chairman Joe Reinhard in the general election 59%–41% (16,081–11,129).
2014 election
In 2014 Nygren was unopposed in both the Republican primary and general election, taking 99.38% of the general election vote.
