Frederica Wilson

Frederica Wilson

Frederica Wilson (born November 5, 1942 in Miami , Florida ) is an American politician . Since 2011 she has represented the 24th constituency of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Frederica Wilson studied at Fisk University in Nashville ( Tennessee ) until 1963 and then at the University of Miami until 1972 . After that, she ran an elementary school in Miami for some time. Between 1992 and 1998 she was a member of the Miami-Dade County School Board .

She is widowed and has three grown children.

politics

Politically, Wilson joined the Democratic Party . Between 1998 and 2002 she was a member of the Florida House of Representatives ; From 2002 to 2010 she was a member of the State Senate and was there in the meantime Whip of the Democratic Group. In 2008, she supported Barack Obama's successful presidential campaign . In the 2010 congressional elections , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th  electoral district of Florida , where she prevailed against the independent Roderick D. Vereen with 86.2 percent of the vote without a Republican candidate. This made her one of only nine newly elected Democratic members of the House of Representatives, where she succeeded Kendrick Meek on January 3, 2011 . He had renounced a new candidacy in favor of an unsuccessful application for the office of governor of Florida. After four re-elections so far, she can continue to exercise her mandate today. Her new term of office, which begins on January 3, 2019, runs until January 3, 2021. After a restructuring of the constituencies of her home state, she has represented the 24th congressional electoral district in the House of Representatives since 2013.

In Congress , Frederica Wilson is or was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology and a total of three sub-committees.

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Frederica Wilson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who Is Frederica Wilson, the Cowboy-Hat-Wearing Florida Democrat Fighting Trump? In: newsweek.com. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .