Jeb Hensarling

Jeb Hensarling (2011)

Jeb Hensarling (* 29. May 1957 in Stephenville , Erath County , Texas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2003 to 2019 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jeb Hensarling studied at Texas A&M University until 1979 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Texas at Austin and his admission as a lawyer in 1982, he began to work in this profession. Between 1985 and 1989 he was on the advisory board of US Senator Phil Gramm . Then he worked in the private sector. He became vice president of two companies and 2001 chairman of the board of the Family Support Assurance Corporation .

Hensarling started working for brothers Sam and Charles Wyly in 1993, but then took time off to work for Phil Gramm's presidential bid. After the failure of this campaign, Hensarling briefly returned to the Wyly brothers, but then went into business for himself in 1996 with his own consulting firm, San Jacinto Ventures .

Politically, Hensarling joined the Republican Party . In the 2002 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Pete Sessions on January 3, 2003 , who moved to the 32nd district. Since he was re-elected in all subsequent elections, up to and including 2016, he was able to exercise his mandate until January 3, 2019. In the 2018 congressional election , he did not run again and thus left the House of Representatives. He was succeeded by the Republican Lance Gooden . He was a member and chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Special Committee on Deficit Reduction ; he also sat on two sub-committees. Hensarling is considered conservative . Between 2007 and 2009 he chaired the Republican Study Committee ; and from 2011 to 2013 he chaired the House Republican Conference . Hensarling was also under discussion as a possible successor to US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was no longer running in 2012 . In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election , Hensarling supported Ted Cruz .

In April 2019, three months after he left the US House of Representatives, Hensarling was appointed Vice Executive Chairman of UBS America .

As chairman of the finance committee in the House of Representatives, Hensarling operated a withdrawal of the banking regulation introduced under Obama .

Web links

Commons : Jeb Hensarling - collection of images, videos and audio files

Jeb Hensarling in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Web presence at the congress

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2010/08/12/Relationship-with-Wyly-brothers-helped-launch-7438
↑ Re-election 2016 to Ballotpedia
↑ UBS hires solid Republicans as breakfast director. In: Finews . Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
↑ hade./Reuters: New details on the planned deregulation of banks. In: FAZ.net . February 10, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hensarling, Jeb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stephenville , Erath County , Texas

[1] ttp://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2010/08/12/Relationship-with-Wyly-brothers-helped-launch-7438

[2] Re-election 2016 to Ballotpedia

[3] UBS hires solid Republicans as breakfast director. In: Finews . Retrieved December 15, 2019 .

[faz-14871102-4] ./Reuters: New details on the planned deregulation of banks. In: FAZ.net . February 10, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .