Connie Mack III

Connie Mack

Connie Mack III (born on October 29, 1940 in Philadelphia as Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III ) is a former American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Florida in both houses of Congress .

Mack's grandfather, born under the name Cornelius McGillicuddy , became one of the most famous personalities in American baseball under the nickname Connie Mack . He was the longest tenured manager in Major League Baseball history and holds the record of top division wins in the United States. On his mother's side, Mack's grandfather was Morris Sheppard , who sat for Texas in the US Senate from 1913 to 1941 .

In 1958 Connie Mack graduated from Fort Myers high school , after which he began studying at the University of Florida . He completed this in 1966 as a Bachelor of Arts . He then worked in the banking industry until 1982 before moving into politics. On January 3, 1983, he entered the United States House of Representatives as representative of the 13th  Congressional Constituency of Florida . After being re-elected twice, he remained there until January 3, 1989.

Immediately afterwards, Mack was elected to the United States Senate, where he succeeded the no longer running Democrat Lawton Chiles . In 1994 he was also successful in re-election; six years later he stopped running. From 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, he was de facto leader of the Republican parliamentary group.

After leaving the Senate, Connie Mack retired from politics and became chairman of the board of a cancer research institute in Tampa . In 2005, US President George W. Bush made him head of a non-partisan advisory team to prepare for the income tax reform . His son Connie also became a politician and, together with his wife Mary , Sonny Bono's widow, was a member of the US House of Representatives until 2013.

Web links

• Connie Mack in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)