David Jolly

David Jolly

David Wilson Jolly (born October 31, 1972 in Dunedin , Florida ) is an American politician . From March 2014 to January 2017 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Jolly graduated from Pasco High School and then studied at Emory University in Atlanta ( Georgia ) until 1994 . After studying law at George Mason University in Arlington ( Virginia ) he began to work in this profession. Between 1994 and 2006 he served on the staff of Congressman Bill Young . He then worked as a lobbyist for Van Scoyoc Associates in Washington, DC . In 2011 he started his own company in the field, called Three Bridges Advisors . During this time, although a member of the Republican Party , he was politically neutral.

After Bill Young's death, Jolly was elected as his party's candidate in the 13th constituency of Florida with 48 percent of the vote in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 11, 2014. The choice was very close. His opponent Alex Sink from the Democratic Party received 46 percent. A simple majority was enough, since the libertarian applicant Lucas Overby received just under five percent of the vote. Among other things, Jolly advocates the right to private gun possession , is against the liberalization of abortion laws and against amnesties for illegal immigrants. He was re-elected in the regular congressional elections in 2014 . On January 3, 2015, he was able to take up a full term of office that ended on January 3, 2017. He was a member of the Budget Committee and three sub-committees. On July 20, 2015, he announced that he would run for the seat of Marco Rubio in the US Senate in 2016 . After Rubio announced in June 2016 that he would be running again for his seat, Jolly ended his candidacy for the US Senate and announced that he would apply again for a seat in the US House of Representatives instead.

In the November 9, 2016 election, he was defeated by his Democratic challenger, ex-Governor Charlie Crist , and therefore resigned from the House of Representatives on January 3, 2017.

Web links

• David Jolly in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)