Michael Patrick Flanagan

Michael Patrick Flanagan

Michael Patrick Flanagan (born November 9, 1962 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American politician . Between 1995 and 1997 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Michael Flanagan attended Lane Technical High School and then studied at Loyola University in Chicago until 1984 . After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1991, he began to work in this profession. From 1984 to 1988 and again during the Gulf War in 1991 and 1992, he served as captain of the artillery in the US Army . Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the 1994 congressional elections , Flanagan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Dan Rostenkowski on January 3, 1995 . Since he lost to Rod Blagojevich in 1996 , he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1997 . There he was a member of the Justice Committee , the Committee on Government Reform and the Joint Committee on Telecommunications . In his voting behavior in Congress, Flanagan was largely on the Republican party line.

Today Michael Flanagan is President of the consulting firm Flanagan Consulting LLC .

Web links

• Michael Patrick Flanagan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Michael Patrick Flanagan in the nndb (English)