Steve Southerland

Steve Southerland

William Steve Southerland Jr. (born October 10, 1965 in Nashville , Tennessee ) is an American politician . Between 2011 and 2015 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Steve Southerland studied after high school until 1987 at Troy State University in Alabama and then until 1989 at Jefferson State Community College , also in Alabama. He then went on to become an entrepreneur in the funeral industry. To this day he is president and co-owner of Southerland Family Funeral Homes, founded in 1955 . He also helped found Genesis , Granite & Stone LLC, and K&B Land and Timber Company, LLC. involved. Southerland was a member and chairman of the Florida Board of Funeral Directors , which deals with funeral matters. He also served as chairman of the Bay County Chamber of Commerce and a Salvation Army advisory board .

Politically, Southerland joined the Republican Party . In the 2010 congressional election , he was elected in the second constituency of Florida with 52 percent of the vote in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the defeated Democrat Allen Boyd on January 3, 2011 . His election victory was in the federal trend of the time in favor of the Republicans. Southerland is a member of the Agriculture Committee , the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure and the Committee on Natural Resources and in five sub-committees.

Within the party, as a member of the Republican Study Committee, he is part of the conservative wing of his party. Southerland is married and has four children with his wife Susan. In the 2014 congressional elections , he was not re-elected and left Congress on January 3, 2015. He was succeeded by Gwen Graham from the Democratic Party .

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Steve Southerland in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Steve Southerland in the nndb (English)