Rick W. Allen

Rick W. Allen (2015)

Richard Wayne "Rick" Allen (born November 7, 1951 in Augusta , Georgia ) is an American politician . He has represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives since 2015 .

Career

Rick Allen studied at Auburn University in Alabama until 1973 . In the following years he worked as a building contractor. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In 2012 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the Congress elections , which went to Lee Anderson . In the 2014 congressional elections , however, Allen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Georgia’s twelfth constituency in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat John Barrow , whom he defeated in the election, on January 3, 2015 . With Barrow, the last non- African-American member of the Democratic Party of the Deep South left Congress. As Allen was reassigned to office in 2016, he will also serve in the 115th United States Congress, which will meet on January 3, 2017 . His new legislative term runs until January 3, 2019 with the option of a further candidacy in 2018.

Web links

• Rick W. Allen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the congress
• Rick Allen on Vote Smart
• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AJC.com: Rick Allen upsets John Barrow for Georgia congressional seat (November 4, 2014)