MEET ANDRÉ
A life-long Wisconsin resident and graduate of Green Bay Southwest High School and UW-Madison, André Jacque has worked in both the private and public sector in aiding economic development, consulting, and promoting conservative principles. After successfully directing multiple state legislative campaigns that defeated longtime liberal Republican incumbents (who had proposed tax hikes and gun control while promoting abortion) and replaced them with conservatives, André worked for Brown County and the City of Green Bay in planning and communications before defeating an incumbent Democrat for a seat in the State Assembly.
In both the Assembly and the State Senate, André has earned a reputation as one of the legislature’s most prominent conservative voices, authoring landmark laws protecting life and preventing taxpayer abortion subsidies, eliminating various taxes, including the income tax on active duty military pay, expanding school choice, cracking down on violent crime and sex trafficking, protecting victims’ rights, reining in government and saving taxpayer dollars through various regulatory reforms, and expanding opportunities for youth apprenticeship and employment pathways for veterans. More recently, André has had several bills he authored to protect Second Amendment rights, stop racist Critical Race Theory, protect election integrity, and stop overreaching executive orders vetoed by liberal Democrat Governor Tony Evers.
André is a board member of Green Bay Area Crimestoppers and the Paul Van Handel Foundation for families of children with special needs, a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 6705 in Denmark, member of the Knights of Columbus, and past Chair of the Wisconsin Small Business Regulatory Review Board, along with several other volunteer community roles.
Among other recognitions earned, André has been named the Legislator of the Year by both Pro-Life Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Professional Police Association multiple times, and was the inaugural recipient of Wisconsin Family Council’s Legislator of the Year Award. He was the Phillips Foundation’s national Distinguished Young Conservative Leader of the Year, has also been recognized as state legislator of the year by the Wisconsin American Legion, Wisconsin VFW, Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, Wisconsin District Attorneys’ Association, Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, and numerous other organizations, along with the Award for Conservative Excellence by the American Conservative Union, the Brown County Crime Prevention Foundation’s Crimefighter Award and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform State Legislative Achievement Award.
André and his wife Renée have six children and are members of St. Francis Xavier Parish in De Pere.