Charles Pelkey

Pelkey filed for reelection to a third term in May 2018. He was unopposed in the Democratic primary and faced Republican Roxie Hensley in November's general election. Pelkey won the election, earning 60.1% of the vote to Hensley's 39.9%. Following the November election, Pelkey was re-elected as Minority Whip in the Wyoming House by members of the Democratic caucus.

In January 2016, Pelkey was the only member of the Wyoming Legislature to endorse Bernie Sanders for President in advance of that state's presidential caucuses.

Pelkey was unopposed in the Democratic Party's August, 2016 primary. He defeated Republican Tom Schmit in November's General Election, winning with a margin of 52.29% to 47.71%.

Following the 2016 General Election, Pelkey was elected as Minority Whip of the Wyoming House.

In 2014, Pelkey announced his candidacy and ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.

In 2011, Pelkey was diagnosed with breast cancer. He underwent a lumpectomy, a double mastectomy and five months' of chemo therapy. He has often served as a spokesman for that small minority of patients suffering from male breast cancer arguing that the most dangerous aspect of the disease is that many men do not believe that they can get breast cancer, leading to a late diagnosis and often-fatal results.

In 2006 Pelkey applied for admission to the University of Wyoming College of Law and was awarded a Juris Doctorate in 2009. He is a founding partner of the Laramie-based criminal defense law firm, Neubauer, Pelkey, & Goldfinger, LLP.

In 1994, Pelkey became an editor at the cycling magazine VeloNews and spent 17 years reporting on the sport of professional cycling. He served as the magazine's lead reporter covering the sport's doping problem. Pelkey was portrayed by British-American actor Nathan Wiley in the 2015 film The Program, a biopic based on Sunday Times of London reporter David Walsh's book, Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong.

Pelkey and Diana Denison were married on August 6, 1986. They have two children, Philip (born in 1994) and Annika (born in 2000).

Pelkey was born in Göppingen, Germany. His mother, Carla (née Ticak), was a post-war refugee from Yugoslavia. His father, Charles F. Pelkey Sr. was a Master Sergeant in the 503rd Engineer Light Equipment Company of the U.S. Army. Pelkey's parents separated in 1964 and his mother moved to Denver, Colorado with her three children in 1966. Pelkey graduated from Iver C. Ranum High School in Westminster, Colorado, in 1976, before moving to Laramie to attend the University of Wyoming in August of that year.

Charles Pelkey (born May 30, 1958) is an attorney and American politician, the Minority Whip of the Wyoming House of Representatives and has served as a Democratic member of the Wyoming State Legislature since January 5, 2015. Pelkey represents Wyoming House District 45, which includes the western portion of Laramie, Wyoming.