Morgan Griffith

Morgan Griffith (2011)

Howard Morgan Griffith (born March 15, 1958 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician . Since 2011 he has represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Morgan Griffith attended Andrew Lewis High School in Salem (Virginia) and then until 1980 the Emory and Henry College in Emory . After completing a law degree at Washington and Lee University and his admission to the bar in 1983, he began working in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1994 and 2010 he was a member of the Virginia House of Representatives , where he held the position of Majority Leader from 2010 .

In the 2010 congressional election , Griffith was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Rick Boucher , who had represented the district since 1983, on January 3, 2011 . His campaign was supported by the libertarian advocacy group Americans for Prosperity , while AFP and other arch-conservative organizations ran a campaign against Boucher. In line with the goals of his most important supporters, Griffith campaigned in the House of Representatives against a planned climate protection levy and for a drastic cut in funds for the national environmental protection agency . As he was re-elected in all subsequent elections, including the one in 2018, Griffith can continue to serve until today (2019). In Congress he is or was a member of the Committee on Energy and Trade and two of its sub-committees. He is against tightening the rules on private gun ownership , tightening immigration rules , against same-sex marriages and in favor of extending the death penalty .

He has three children with his wife, Hillary. The family lives privately in Salem.

swell

• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

Commons : Morgan Griffith  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Doubleday, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-3855-3559-5 , pp. 252, 276.