Pete Sessions

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Pete Sessions (2012)

Pete Sessions (actually Peter Anderson Sessions ; born March 22, 1955 in Waco , Texas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 1997 to 2019 he represented the northern suburbs of Dallas in the United States House of Representatives . In the 2020 election he is running in the centrally located 17th Congressional constituency of Texas.

Family, education and work

Pete Sessions is the second oldest of four children of former FBI Director William S. Sessions and his wife Alice Lewis.

Pete Sessions first studied in 1973/74 at Southwestern Texas State University and graduated in 1978 from Southwestern University in Georgetown with a bachelor's degree in political science . He then worked for the Southwestern Bell telephone company , now AT&T , for sixteen years , where he rose to the position of district manager in marketing. From 1994 to 1995 Sessions worked for the conservative think tank National Center for Policy Analysis .

Sessions married Juanita Diaz in 1984, with whom he has sons Bill and Alex and three stepchildren. He is committed to the Boy Scouts of America and is a member of the United Methodist Church .

In 2011 he separated after 27 years of marriage and shortly afterwards married the widowed Karen Diebel, whose political campaign he had supported with donations.

Political career

Sessions first ran for a political mandate when he ran in the 1991 Republican primary for the nomination in the 5th Congressional constituency of Texas for the US House of Representatives. At that time he was defeated. In the 1994 election he became a Republican candidate there, but was defeated by the Democrat John Wiley Bryant . In the subsequent election in November 1996 (at the same time as the 1996 presidential election ), Bryant did not run because he was running for a seat in the US Senate . Sessions won with 47 percent of the vote and became a member of the House of Representatives on January 3, 1997. He was re-elected in all elections until 2016 and from 2003 represented the 32nd congressional electoral district of Texas, which geographically largely coincided with its previous north of Dallas and which had been redesigned after the United States Census 2000 .

Sessions was a member and chairman of the Rules Committee and served on several Congressional Caucuses , including the Tea Party Caucus . He was also a member of the Republican Study Committee and from 2009 to 2012 chaired the National Republican Campaign Committee .

In the 2018 election , the mid-term election in Donald Trump's presidency , in which the Republicans lost their majority in the House of Representatives, Sessions lost to Democrat Colin Allred . Sessions left the congress on January 3, 2019.

In October 2019, it was announced that Sessions was running for the 2020 election in the 17th Congressional electoral district of Texas, which includes part of the city of Waco and central rural areas of the state. This constituency is considered to be reliably Republican and was previously represented by Bill Flores , who will not run again in 2020.

The indictment against two employees of Giuliani suggests that they should have offered to collect donations for sessions, if in return the latter should campaign to recall US ambassador Marie Yovanovitch from Ukraine.

Web links

Commons : Pete Sessions  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2012/08/05/dallas-rep-pete-sessions-marries-ex-congressional-candidate-karen-diebel-of-florida/
  2. ↑ Pete Sessions, R. In: Roll Call.
  3. ↑ Griffin Connolly: 2020 strategy: If you can't beat 'em - move. In: Roll Call , October 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sessions, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sessions, Peter Anderson (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Waco , Texas