Andrew Motion Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family
John Lewis (Montana politician) for Baucus's 2008 campaign. Lewis became Baucus's deputy state director after the campaign, and was promoted to state director in 2010. On Baucus's behalf, in 2011 Lewis attempted to visit all 56 Montana counties and meet with the mayors of all 129 incorporated Montana towns. He ultimately met with 118 mayors, traveling more than 20,000 miles in his car. Lewis ran for Montana's at-large congressional district seat in 2014. The seat was held by Republican Congressman Steve Daines, who ran for the U.S. Senate. In 2017, Montana Governor Steve Bullock appointed John Lewis to his Cabinet as Director of the