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NAME: Todd McCracken

AGE: 45

GREW UP IN: Alamogordo, N.M.

Lives in: Arlington, Va.

Education: Bachelor of Arts in economics, Trinity University, San Antonio

Career: Worked briefly in the Washington office of Sen. Peter Domenici, R-N.M. before joining NSBA in 1988 as a junior government affairs staffer. Rose to director of government affairs and vice president of government affairs and has been president since 1997.

Family: Wife Melissa, two sons, ages 16 and 12.

Hobbies: Reading

Last book read: Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch