Jack Riggs

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name = Jack Riggs
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order = 38th
office = Lieutenant Governor of Idaho
term_start = January 30, 2001
term_end = January 6, 2003
governor = Dirk Kempthorne
predecessor = C. L. "Butch" Otter
successor = Jim Risch
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birth_place = Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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party = Republican
residence = Coeur d'Alene
alma_mater = University of Idaho (1976), University of Washington School of Medicine (M.D.)
profession = Physician
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Jack Riggs, M.D. is a Republican politician from Idaho. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Idaho from 2001 to 2003.

Riggs is a physician from Coeur d'Alene. He was appointed lieutenant governor by Governor Dirk Kempthorne in January 2001 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of longtime Lieutenant Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter, who won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 2000 election. Previously Riggs served in the Idaho Legislature as a member of the Idaho State Senate.

Riggs ran for lieutenant governor in 2002 but was defeated by state senator Jim Risch in the Republican primary. He currently serves as member of the Idaho State Board of Health and Welfare.

Business

In 2005, Riggs helped purchase "The Pita Pit" chain of fast food restaurants, and began expanding the franchise through 2007.

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before= C. L. "Butch" Otter
title= Lieutenant Governor of Idaho
years= January 30, 2001–January 6, 2003
after= Jim Risch