What is Don Beyer?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Don Beyer |image = Rep. Don Beyer, official portrait (118th Congress).jpg |state = [[Virginia]] |district = {{ushr|VA|8|8th}} |term_start = January 3, 2015 |term_end = |predecessor = [[Jim Moran]] |successor = |office1 = [[United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein]] |president1 = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start1 = September 8, 2009 |term_end1 = May 29, 2013 |predecessor1 = Peter Coneway |successor1 = [[Suzan G. LeVine]] |office2 = 36th [[Lieutenant Governor of Virginia]] |governor2 = [[Douglas Wilder]]<br>[[George Allen (American politician)|George Allen]] |term_start2 = January 13, 1990 |term_end2 = January 17, 1998 |predecessor2 = [[Douglas Wilder]] |successor2 = [[John H. Hager|John Hager]] |birth_name = Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|6|20}} |birth_place = [[Trieste]], [[Free Territory of Trieste|Trieste]] (now [[Italy]]) |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = [[Megan Beyer|Megan Carroll]] |children = 4 |education = [[Williams College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) |website = {{url|beyer.house.gov|House website}} }} '''Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr.''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|aɪ|.|ər}}; born June 20, 1950), is an American businessman, diplomat and politician. He is the [[United States House of Representatives|United States Representative]] for {{ushr|Virginia|8}} since 2015. His party's nominee for governor [[Virginia gubernatorial election, 1997|in 1997]], he lost to Republican [[Jim Gilmore]], who was then the [[Attorney General of Virginia]]. From 2009 to 2013, he was [[United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20130718165133/http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/end-of-term-reflections-with-us-ambassador-beyer.shtml?35937 End of term reflections with U.S. Ambassador Beyer], ''World Radio Switzerland'', May 27, 2013.</ref> ==References== {{refli