Connie Mack IV

Connie Mack IV

Connie Mack IV (* 12. August 1967 in Fort Myers , Florida , actually: Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2005 to 2013 he represented Florida's 14th Congressional electoral district in the US House of Representatives . In the 2012 election to the US Senate, he was defeated by the Democratic mandate holder Bill Nelson .

Family, education and work

Connie Mack is a member of a well-known family of politicians. His father Connie Mack III (* 1940) sat for the state of Florida between 1983 and 2000 in both chambers of Congress . His great-grandfather Morris Sheppard (1875-1941) represented the state of Texas between 1901 and 1941 also in both chambers of Congress and his great-great-grandfather John Levi Sheppard (1852-1902) was from 1899 to 1902 Congressman for Texas. Like his father, Mack does not have his actual name, but a nickname. This goes back to his great-grandfather Connie Mack , one of the greatest personalities in American baseball , who never officially changed his maiden name, but was practically not known by this.

Mack studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville until 1993 . Then he worked as a businessman in the marketing sector.

Connie Mack has two children from his first marriage. From 2007 to 2015 he was married to the California Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack , Sonny Bono's widow .

Political career

Mack was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003 . In the 2004 congressional elections , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th  constituency of Florida , where he succeeded Porter Goss on January 3, 2005 . Mack was a member of the Budget Committee , the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Transport and Infrastructure Committee .

After three re-elections ( most recently in 2010 ), his mandate in Congress ended on January 3, 2013, as he did not run for this seat in the 2012 election. Instead, he applied for a seat in the US Senate. In the Senate election in November 2012, Connie Mack was clearly defeated by incumbent Bill Nelson .

According to politics

After leaving Congress, Mack became a lobbyist for various companies, including those that advised foreign governments and tried to give them influence in American politics. From 2015 onwards, Mack worked as a registered foreign agent as spokesman for the Hungarian government under Viktor Orban in the United States, earned more than one million dollars in 2015 and was thus among the ten best-paid former congressmen.

Web links

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

supporting documents

1. ↑ Kevin Bogardus: Former Rep. Connie Mack joins lobby firm. In: The Hill , April 15, 2013; Megan R. Wilson: Hungary taps ex-congressman as US spokesman. In: The Hill , September 16, 2015; Joseph J. Schatz, Benjamin Oreskes: Want to be a 'foreign agent'? Serve in Congress first. In: Politico , February 10, 2016.