Mo Brooks

Morris Jackson "Mo" Brooks, Jr. (* 29. April 1954 in Charleston , South Carolina ) is an American politician of the Republican Party and member of the US House of Representatives for the State of Alabama .

Life

Brooks was born in Charleston in 1954 and moved to Huntsville , Alabama in 1963 . His father was an electrical engineer and his mother a political and business teacher at Lee High School .

Brooks attended Grissom High School and first studied economics and political science at Duke University , where he graduated with honors. He then studied law at the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated in 1978. 1982 Brooks was first as a deputy in the Alabama House of Representatives voted, as in 1983, 1986 and 1990. After the 1991 Attorney of Madison County had been appointed, he joined the following year for re-election, but lost to Democrat Tim Morgan.

From 1995 to 1996, Brooks was an associate and assistant to the Attorney General of Alabama, Jeff Sessions . From 1996 to 2002 he worked in the same capacity for Sessions' successor William H. Pryor . From 1996 to 2008 he served on the Madison County County Committee. In 2006 he applied for the Republican nomination for election to lieutenant governor of Alabama, but only finished third within the party.

In 2010, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the state of Alabama with 57% of the vote, defeating Democrat Steve Raby. He had previously prevailed in the primary of his party against incumbent Parker Griffith , who had converted from Democrats to Republicans during the previous legislature. He serves in Congress as a member of the Armed Forces Committee , the Homeland Security Committee, and the Science and Technology Committee. In August 2014, Brooks attracted attention when he claimed on the Laura Ingraham Show that the Democratic Party was waging a war on the white race ("War on Whites"). President Barack Obama would have started this strategy in 2008. Brooks was criticized for making this statement. For example, The New Yorker magazine wrote that Brooks was using an argument that white racists had been using for 200 years in denying reality.

Mo Brooks was re-elected in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. This means that he can probably exercise his mandate in the House of Representatives until January 2021. He has the option of a further candidacy.

He has been married to Martha Jenkins since 1976. You have four children. Brooks is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .

Web links

Commons : Mo Brooks - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website
Election results at ourcampaigns.com
Mo Brooks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia
Mo Brooks at Ballotpedia

Individual evidence

^ David Weigel: Why Is This Republican Congressman Worried About a "War on Whites" . Slate. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
↑ Jonathan Capehart: Rep. Mo Brooks talks 'war on whites' as the GOP loses the battle for votes . The Washington Post. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
↑ Joanathan Chalit: Republican Denounces 'War on Whites' . The New Yorker. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
^ Paul Gattis: Rep. Mo Brooks: Democrats 'dividing America by race' in 'waging a war on whites' . AL.com. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Brooks, Mon.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brooks, Morris Jackson Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Charleston , South Carolina

[1] David Weigel: Why Is This Republican Congressman Worried About a "War on Whites" . Slate. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

[2] Jonathan Capehart: Rep. Mo Brooks talks 'war on whites' as the GOP loses the battle for votes . The Washington Post. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

[3] Joanathan Chalit: Republican Denounces 'War on Whites' . The New Yorker. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

[4] Paul Gattis: Rep. Mo Brooks: Democrats 'dividing America by race' in 'waging a war on whites' . AL.com. Retrieved August 5, 2014.