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{{Short description|American economist (born 1941)}}
{{BLP sources|date = July 2019}}
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| name               = Pat Choate
| image              = Pat Choate, 2021.png
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| caption            = Choate in 2021
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1941|4|27}}
| birth_place        = [[Maypearl, Texas]], U.S.
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| party              = [[Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform]]
| spouse             = Kay Casey
| occupation         = Economist
| known_for          = Being the 1996 [[Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party]] candidate for [[Vice President of the United States]]
| education          = [[University of Texas at Arlington]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[University of Oklahoma]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
}}
'''Patrick Jeffrey Choate''' ({{IPAc-en|ʃ|oʊ|t}};<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/11/us/economist-with-a-passion-for-policy-pat-choate.html|title = Economist With a Passion for Policy -- Pat Choate|last = Barron|first = James|date = September 11, 1996|access-date = July 10, 2019|work = [[The New York Times]]}}</ref> born April 27, 1941) is an American economist who is most known for being the [[1996 United States presidential election|1996]] [[Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party]] candidate for [[Vice President of the United States]], the running-mate of [[Ross Perot]]. Following the 1996 election, the [[Federal Election Commission]] certified the Reform Party as a national political party eligible for federal campaign matching funds, a historic first.

==Life and career==
Choate was born in [[Maypearl, Texas]], the son of Bettie Lee (Simpson) and Frank William Choate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V8WK-HRS|title=FamilySearch.org|website=[[FamilySearch]] |accessdate=14 July 2023}}</ref> He is the director of the Manufacturing Policy Project, which studies long-term U.S. [[economics|economic]] policy.  He previously worked as Director of Research and Planning for the Oklahoma Industrial Development Commission; as Tennessee's first Commissioner of Economic and Community Development; as the Director of the Appalachian and then Southern Regional Offices of the U.S. Department of Commerce's [[Economic Development Administration]] (EDA); as Director of the EDA Office of Economic Research; as the Senior Economist in the Office of Management and Budget's Trade Reorganization Project; as a Fellow at the Battelle Institute's Academy for Contemporary Problems and as Vice President of Public Policy at TRW, Inc.  He has served on several Presidential and Congressional commissions on education, infrastructure and national security.

He was a co-founder of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI) in 1986 and served as its chair or co-chair for 18 years.  Choate is married to Kay Casey and has one grown stepson. Pat Choate and his wife live near [[Washington, Virginia]].  He has a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from the [[University of Texas at Arlington]] and an [[Master of Arts|MA]] and [[PhD]] from the [[University of Oklahoma]], all in economics.  In 1994, the University of Oklahoma named him the Arthur Barto Adams Alumni Fellow in recognition of his continuing scholarship. He has taught a course called Advanced Issues Management at [[George Washington University|George Washington University's]] [[Graduate School of Political Management]]. He is known for his work on development economics, including infrastructure and intellectual property, and his strong stance against unfettered globalism. He is also on the board of directors for the American Innovators for Patent Reform.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2625674.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115162025/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2625674.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 15, 2009|title=Pat Choate, Celebrated Economist, Author and Intellectual Property Expert, Joins AIPR Board of Directors|website=PRWeb|accessdate=14 July 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Pat Choate 2006.png|thumb|right|Choate in 2006]]

He hosted a weekly radio show called ''The Week Ahead'' from 1994 to 1996 and ''The Pat Choate Show'' from 1997 to 2000.

==Electoral history==
'''[[1996 United States presidential election]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Leip|first=David|title=1996 Presidential General Election Results|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1996&off=0&f=1|publisher=David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref>'''
*[[Bill Clinton]]/[[Al Gore]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) ([[Incumbent|Inc.]])&nbsp;– 47,402,357 (49.2%) and 379 electoral votes (31 states and [[Washington, D.C.|D.C.]] carried)
*[[Bob Dole]]/[[Jack Kemp]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])&nbsp;- 39,198,755 (40.7%) and 159 electoral votes (19 states carried)
*[[Ross Perot]]/'''Pat Choate''' ([[Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform]])&nbsp;- 8,085,402 (8.4%) and 0 electoral votes

==Bibliography==
He has authored and co-authored dozens of reports and several books, including:

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?14730-1/agents-influence ''Booknotes'' interview with Choate on ''Agents of Influence'', October 28, 1990], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?187043-1/hot-property-stealing-ideas Presentation by Choate on ''Hat Property'', May 16, 2005], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?280494-5/dangerous-business ''Washington Journal'' interview with Choate on ''Dangerous Business'', August 17, 2008], [[C-SPAN]]}}

* ''Agents of Influence: How Japan Manipulates America's Political and Economic System'' {{ISBN|0-671-74339-2}}
* ''The High Flex Society'' with Juyne Linger
* ''America in Ruins'' with Susan Walters
* ''Thinking Strategically'' with Susan Walters
* ''Being Number One: Rebuilding the U.S. Economy'' with Gail Garfield Schwartz
* ''Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why [[North American Free Trade Agreement|NAFTA]] Must Be Stopped Now'' with Ross Perot
* ''Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization'' {{ISBN|0-375-40212-8}}
* ''Dangerous Business:  The Risks of Globalization to America'' (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. August 2008)
* ''Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong''

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041212204500/http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/reform/choate/ CNN's All Politics Profile of Dr. Choate]
* {{C-SPAN|81}}

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