Daniel Webster (politician, 1949)

Daniel Webster

Daniel A. Webster (* 27. April 1949 in Charleston , West Virginia ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2011 he has represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Webster is a distant relative of the politician of the same name from the first half of the 19th century, Daniel Webster (1782-1852), among other things former Secretary of State of the United States . At the age of seven he came to Orlando , Florida with his parents . After primary school he studied electronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology until 1971 . Then he started to work in the family-owned company, which deals with the construction of air conditioning and heating systems. Today he is the head of this company.

Politically, Webster became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1980 and 1998 he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives ; from 1996 he was its president . He succeeded the Democrat Peter Rudy Wallace , making him the first Republican in this office since Malachi Martin in 1874. From 1998 to 2008, Webster was a member of the State Senate . There he temporarily headed the Judiciary Committee and was the Republican parliamentary group leader from 2006 to 2008. In 2004 he considered running for the US Senate at short notice , which he withdrew.

In the 2010 congressional elections , Webster was elected in the eighth constituency of Florida with 56 percent of the vote in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the defeated Democrat Alan Grayson on January 3, 2011 . He was always re-elected in subsequent elections. Since 2013 he has represented the tenth congressional electoral district in the US House of Representatives and in 2016 he ran successfully for the first time in the eleventh electoral district for his further stay in Congress. His new legislative period runs until January 3, 2021.

He is married and has six children and five grandchildren.

Web links

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