Kendrick Meek

Kendrick Meek

Kendrick Brett Meek (born September 6, 1966 in Miami , Florida ) is an American politician . Between 2003 and 2011 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Kendrick Meek is the son of former Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek . He studied at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee until 1989 . He then worked for the Florida Highway Police. Politically, like his mother, he became a member of the Democratic Party , whose youth organization at the state level he led. Between 1994 and 1998 Meek was an MP in the Florida House of Representatives ; from 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the 2002 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 17th  electoral district of Florida , where he succeeded his mother on January 3, 2003. After three re-elections, in each of which there was no official opposing candidate in the traditionally democratic electoral district, he was able to complete four terms in Congress until January 3, 2011 . There he was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means .

In 2010, Meek waived another candidacy for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for election to the US Senate . With 20.2 percent of the vote, he was only in third place behind the victorious Republican Marco Rubio (48.9 percent) and the former Republican governor Charlie Crist (29.7 percent), who ran as an independent. At times there was speculation that Meek might break off his candidacy in Crist's favor; but that did not happen. Kendrick Meek is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Kendrick Meek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kendrick Meek in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)