Bradley Byrne

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Bradley Byrne (2013)

Bradley Byrne (* 16th February 1955 in Mobile , Alabama ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2014, he has represented Alabama's 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives . He ran for his party's nomination for the 2020 US Senate election against Democrat Doug Jones , but dropped out of the primary.

Family, education and work

Bradley Byrne graduated from the University Military School in Mobile. He then studied until 1977 at Duke University in Durham ( North Carolina ). After studying law at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and being admitted to the bar in 1980, he began to work in this profession.

He has four children with his wife, Rebecca. You live in Fairhope , Alabama.

Political career

Politically, Byrne was initially a member of the Democratic Party . In 1997 he joined the Republicans . Between 1994 and 2002 he sat on his state's education committee. From 2002 to 2007 he was a member of the Alabama Senate . He then served as Chancellor of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education between 2007 and 2009 . Above all, he campaigned against corruption. In 2010 he ran unsuccessfully in the gubernatorial primaries of his party, in which he was defeated by Robert J. Bentley .

During the 2010 election campaign, conservatives accused him in an election broadcast of believing in the theory of evolution and believing parts of the Bible to be wrong. He fought vehemently against these allegations . He believed in creationism and had campaigned for it to become part of state education.

Following the resignation of MP Jo Bonner , Bradley Byrne was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on December 17, 2013. He prevailed with 71 to 29 percent of the vote against the Democrat Burton LeFlore. In the 2014 regular election he was confirmed with 68 percent of the vote, and he also won the 2016 and 2018 elections.

In February 2019, Byrne announced that it was running for the nomination for one of Alabama's two seats in the United States Senate . He will therefore not run again for his previous seat in the US House of Representatives in the 2020 election ; his mandate there ends on January 3, 2021. In the Senate primary, Byrne, who is considered a supporter of President Donald Trump , will meet Roy Moore , who was defeated by Democrat Doug Jones in the 2017 by-election . In the primary on March 3, 2020, Byrne was third and was eliminated from the election, along with Moore and three other candidates. The victorious were the former US attorney general , Jeff Sessions and the former coach of various American football teams, Tommy Tuberville , who will compete in a runoff election.

Web links

Commons : Bradley Byrne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bradley Byrne's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  2. ^ Brian Montopoli: Alabama Gov. Candidate Attacked for Belief in Evolution. In: CBS News , May 11, 2010.
  3. ^ John Sharp: Bradley Byrne announces run for Senate in 2020, vowing to 'fight for Alabama'. In: AL.com , February 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ James Arkin: Sessions forced into runoff for Alabama Senate seat. In: Politico. Politico LLC, March 3, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Byrne, Bradley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mobile , Alabama