Bob Inglis

Bob Inglis

Robert Durden "Bob" Inglis (born October 11, 1959 in Savannah , Georgia ) is an American politician . Between 1993 and 1999 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives . He exercised this mandate again from 2005 to 2011.

Career

Bob Inglis was born in Georgia but grew up in Bluffton, South Carolina. There he attended the May River Academy . He then studied at Duke University in Durham ( North Carolina ) until 1981 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar, he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Inglis joined the Republican Party . In Greenville County he became a board member of his party. In 1992 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Liz J. Patterson on January 3, 1993 . After two re-elections, he was able to exercise this mandate until January 3, 1999. In 1998 he renounced another candidacy. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate .

Inglis worked as a lawyer again in the following years. He specialized in commercial and real estate law. In the 2004 congressional election, he was re-elected to the fourth district in the US House of Representatives. There he replaced Jim DeMint , who had moved to the Senate on January 3, 2005 and who in turn had taken over the mandate from Inglis in 1999. In the Congress, Inglis campaigned for a law against online gambling. Inglis was more liberal in his second time as a member of Congress than in his first term. In 2007, he was one of 17 Republican MPs who voted with the Democrats against troop reinforcement in Iraq . Bob Inglis was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Science and Technology Committee and a total of five sub-committees. On January 3, 2011 Inglis left the congress.

He has five children with his wife, Mary Anne Inglis. Privately he lives in Travelers Rest .

Web links

• Bob Inglis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)