Corrine Brown

Corrine Brown

Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946 in Jacksonville , Florida ) is an American politician . From 1993 to 2017 she represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives . After her loss in the 2016 primaries, she left Congress on January 3, 2017.

Career

Corrine Brown studied at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee until 1971 and then at the University of Florida in Gainesville until 1974 . She then became a faculty member at the University of Florida, Edward Waters College, and Florida Community College in Jacksonville. At the same time she began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1983 and 1993, Brown was a member of the Florida House of Representatives . In the 1992 congressional elections , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Florida , where she succeeded Charles Edward Bennett on January 3, 1993 . After eleven re-elections so far, she can still exercise her mandate in Congress today. She has been representing the fifth congressional electoral district in her state since 2013. Since she was re-confirmed in the 2014 congressional elections , she was able to run another legislative period in Congress on January 3, 2015, which ran until January 3, 2017. In 2016, she lost her party's primary to Al Lawson . Therefore, she left the Congress at the end of the legislative period on January 3, 2017.

In the US House of Representatives, Corinne Brown served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , the Veterans Committee, and some of their sub-committees. In the past, she has occasionally made headlines in connection with handling campaign donations. Brown was an opponent of President George W. Bush's policies . Among other things, she described the counting of votes in Florida in the 2000 presidential election as a "coup".

In May 2017, Brown was found guilty in a Jacksonville court. The court found it established that Brown had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private purposes during her time as a MP. The money had been designed for scholarships for poor children. In early December 2017, Brown was sentenced to five years in prison.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ex-Congresswoman May Spend Rest of Life in Prison for Fraud
2. ^ Former congresswoman Corrine Brown sentenced to five years in prison in charity slush-fund case

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Corrine Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)