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Saulius "Saul" Anuzis (born March 6, 1959) is an American elected official from the U.S. State of Michigan, he is currently serving as National Chairman for the "Save American Jobs Project" on the American Solutions team. Saul was the former Chair of the Michigan Republican Party and was also a candidate for Chair of the Republican National Committee in 2009.
Anuzis was born in the U.S.A. to Lithuanian immigrants, Ceslovas and Elena Anuzis. He attended Bishop Borgess High School and later studied Economics at the University of Michigan–Dearborn campus. His senior year he was elected President of the Student Government and also was one of the founders and first Chairman of the UM-D College Republican club on campus. His parents and paternal grandparents, Ignas and Elena Anuzis, received the Righteous Among the Nations award from Israel's national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, for helping three young girls escape from a Jewish ghetto and make their way from Lithuania to Estonia during World War II. One of those girls, now grown, nominated them for the award. Anuzis is married to , (née Alksninis) and they have four sons, Matas, Tadas, Vytis, and Marius.
In 1980, Anuzis was elected as the youngest delegate to the Republican National Convention held in Detroit. After attending President Reagan's first inaugural he was elected Third Vice Chair of the MRSC. Anuzis also served six years as a member of the MRSC and two terms as a Congressional District Chairman.