Mike Kelly (politician, 1948)

Mike Kelly (2011)

George Joseph "Mike" Kelly Jr. (born May 10, 1948 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician . Since 2011 he has represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mike Kelly studied at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend ( Indiana ) until 1970 . Then he became a car dealer. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1992 and 1995 he served on the Butler City School Board ; from 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the Butler County county council .

In the 2010 congressional elections , Kelly was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper on January 3, 2011 . Since he was in all subsequent elections, including the one in 2016. He was initially a member of the Committee on Labor and Education , the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as well as a total of six subcommittees. He later also became a member of the Committee on Ways and Means . He is also a member of several Congressional Caucuses and the Republican Study Committee .

After the Pennsylvania constituency reorganization, he ran in the 2018 election in the 16th district. He prevailed against the Democrats with Ronald DiNicola 51.5% of the vote. His term of office begins on January 3, 2019 and ends in January 2021.

Kelly is married. He and his wife have four grown children. The couple now also have four grandchildren.

swell

• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Mike Kelly in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Kelly (Pennsylvania) - Ballotpedia . In: Ballotpedia . ( ballotpedia.org [accessed December 1, 2018]).