Jim Davis (politician)

Jim Davis

James Oscar "Jim" Davis (born October 11, 1957 in Tampa , Florida ) is an American politician . Between 1997 and 2007 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jim Davis attended Jesuit High School in Tampa until 1975 and then studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia ) until 1979 . After completing a law degree at the College of Law at the University of Florida in Gainesville and being admitted to the bar in 1982, he began to work in his new profession. In 1988 he joined a major Tampa law firm.

Politically, Davis joined the Democratic Party . Between 1988 and 1996 he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives , where he led the Democratic Group between 1994 and 1996. In the 1996 congressional elections , he was elected to the Eleventh constituency of Florida in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Sam Gibbons on January 3, 1997 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 2007 . In 2002, he was one of 81 Democratic Congressmen who voted for the Iraq war .

In 2006 Davis renounced another congressional candidacy. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Florida: He got 45.1 percent of the vote and was defeated by the victorious Republican Charlie Crist . He has been with a Tampa law firm since 2007. In 2010, there was speculation about a possible candidacy of Davis in March 2011 for the office of mayor of Tampa, which then failed to materialize. Jim Davis is married and lives with his family in Tampa.

Web links

• Jim Davis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)