During his second two-year term (2011–12), he served as the House's Majority Whip.
He attended Northern State University (NSU) and Yankton College.
While at NSU, he met a fellow student named Holly Wanner.
In the series' fourteenth episode, he appeared as a "loved one" for a reward challenge.
Ultimately, the Hoffmans were one of the pairs chosen by Chase Rice, the challenge winner, to join him (and his mother) in partaking the reward.