David Lee Camp

David Lee Camp (2013)

David Lee "Dave" Camp (* 9. July 1953 in Midland , Michigan ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015 .

Dave Camp attended high school in his hometown of Midland. After graduating there in 1971, he spent two years studying at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England . Upon his return, he received his bachelor's degree from Albion College in 1975 and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego Law School in 1978 .

Subsequently, Camp worked in the administration of Midland County ; there he was also a member of the executive committee of the local Republican Party. For a short time he also worked as an independent lawyer. From 1980 to 1984 he was Assistant Attorney General of Michigan before serving on the staff of Congressman Bill Schuette until 1987 . Between 1989 and 1990 he sat in the Michigan House of Representatives . When Schuette was named Michigan Secretary of Agriculture in 1991, Dave Camp was his successor in Congress . There he initially represented the 10th  congressional electoral district ; after a reorganization of the districts he was from 1993 representative of the 4th electoral district. In addition to Camp's hometown of Midland, this included the cities of Traverse City and Mount Pleasant .

Camp won all re-elections, most recently in 2012 with 63 percent of the vote against the Democrat Debra Freidell Wirth. In the 108th Congress , he served as a deputy whip of the Republican majority faction and was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means . In this position he was instrumental in supporting reforms in welfare policy. Within his party, he tries to take a balancing position between its wings. He was a member of the moderately progressive Republican Main Street Partnership as well as the conservative Republican Study Committee , some of which represented significantly different positions. From 2011, he chaired the Joint Tax Committee of Congress and the Committee on Ways and Means . In 2014 he decided not to stand for re-election, after which he resigned from Congress on January 3, 2015. His successor was again a Republican with John Moolenaar .

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• David Lee Camp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Dave Camp in nndb (English)