'''Ken Buck''' is the candidate of the [[Tea Party Movement]] for the [[Republican]] nomination for Senate in [[Colorado]] in 2012. He previously served as a local prosecutor in Weld County, Colorado.
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'''Ken Buck''' is the candidate backed by the [[Tea Party Movement]] for the [[Republican]] nomination for Senate in [[Colorado]] in 2012. he is currently the Weld County District Attorney. He earned his undergraduate degree from [[Princeton University]] in 1981 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Wyoming School of Law in 1985.
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In 1986, he was hired by then Congressman [[Dick Cheney]] to work on the [[Iran-Contra]] Investigation. After that he worked as a prosecutor with the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] in Washington D.C. In 1990, Buck joined the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office where he
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became the Chief of the Criminal Division. Throughout his years in Colorado, he has served as an instructor at the University of Denver Law
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School and for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.