Alan Wheat

Alan Wheat

Alan Dupree Wheat (born October 16, 1951 in San Antonio , Texas ) is an American politician . Between 1983 and 1995 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alan Wheat attended the public schools in Wichita ( Kansas ) and in Spanish Sevilla and until 1968 the Airline High School in Bossier City in the state of Louisiana . This was followed by a study at Grinnell College in Iowa until 1972 . In the following years he worked in business. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Wheat initially served on the Jackson County County Council. Between 1977 and 1982 he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives . In 1978 he was a delegate to the Missouri Regional Democratic Party Conference. In the 1982 congressional election , Wheat was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Richard Walker Bolling on January 3, 1983 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1995 . There he was temporarily a member of the Committee on Rules . In 1992 the 27th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

In 1994 Alan Wheat renounced a possible re-election in favor of a then unsuccessful candidacy for the US Senate . In 1996 he was on President Bill Clinton's campaign team . He also started his own lobbying firm called Wheat Government Relations . He was married to Yolanda Townsend and has three children.

Web links

• Alan Wheat in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)