Brad Carson

Brad Carson (2014)

Bradley Rogers "Brad" Carson (born March 11, 1967 in Winslow , Arizona ) is an American politician . Between 2001 and 2005 he represented the second congressional constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carson attended after elementary school, the Jenkins High School and then with a grant from the Baylor University in Waco ( Texas ). He later also studied at the University of Oxford in England . He graduated from the University of Oklahoma at Norman with a law degree in 1994 . After his admission to the bar, he began practicing his new profession with the law firm Crowe & Dunley .

Carson became a member of the Democratic Party . In 2000 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second district of Oklahoma, where he succeeded Republican Tom Coburn on January 3, 2001 . In the election, he had beaten Republican Andy Ewing with 55% of the vote. After being re-elected in 2002, Carson was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 2005 . In 2002, he was among 81 Democratic Congressmen to vote for the Iraq War .

In 2004 Carson no longer ran for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate ; he was defeated by Tom Coburn with 41:53 percent of the vote. He then taught politics at Harvard University for a year . He later served as the CEO of a company owned by the Cherokee Indians; Carson himself is a member of the Cherokee Nation . In December 2008 it was reported that he had abandoned his post to serve as intelligence officer of the US Navy in Iraq to leave. He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election .

In June 2011, Carson announced that he would run for his former seat in the 2012 congressional election . His successor Dan Boren had previously announced that he would not stand again. A short time later, he announced his withdrawal again.

After being in September 2011 by President Obama to Counsel ( General Counsel ) of the Department of the Army had been appointed in January 2014, appointed deputy Army Secretary ( Under Secretary of the Army ). He took office as the successor to Joseph W. Westphal on March 27 of the same year.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roll Call Politics: Boren Won't Seek Re-Election (June 7, 2011)
2. ↑ United States Army: Carson sworn in as 31st Under Secretary of US Army (March 27, 2014)

Web links

• Brad Carson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)