Rob Woodall

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Rob Woodall, before 2011

Robert "Rob" Woodall (* 11. February 1970 in Athens , Georgia ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2011, he has represented Georgia’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Woodall attended both private and public schools. Until 1988 he was at the Marist School in Atlanta . He then studied at Furman University in Greenville ( South Carolina ) until 1992 . This was followed by a law degree at the University of Georgia , which he finished after a break in 1998. Between 1994 and 2010 he served on the staff of Congressman John Linder .

In the 2010 election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 7th congressional constituency of the state of Georgia , where he clearly defeated the Democrat Doug Heckman. On January 3, 2011, he succeeded Linder. It was confirmed in the following congressional elections, but in the mid-term election in November 2018 , when the Republicans lost their majority in the House of Representatives, it was the narrowest result in the United States. According to an ordered recount, he was less than five hundred votes ahead of Carolyn Bourdeaux , the Democratic candidate. The formerly reliably conservative constituency, which is located in the demographically more diverse, affluent suburbs of Atlanta, is like the neighboring constituency in which the Democrat Lucy McBath beat the Republican mandate holder Karen Handel in 2018 , one of the areas in which the Democrats were strongest during Donald Trump's presidency added. In February 2019, Woodall announced that he would not run again in the 2020 election, making his seat one of the best opportunities for the Democrats to win in the upcoming election. Bourdeaux will run again in 2020, Woodall's mandate ends on January 3, 2021.

Positions

Woodall is considered a reluctant specialist politician for budgetary policy and belonged, among other things, to the powerful Committee on Rules of Procedure and the Transport Committee.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. Tamar Hellerman: US Rep. Rob Woodall will not seek re-election. In: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , February 7, 2019.
  2. Tamar Hellerman: US Rep. Rob Woodall will not seek re-election. In: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , February 7, 2019.