Tillie K. Fowler

Tillie K. Fowler

Tillie Kidd Fowler (born December 23, 1942 in Atlanta , Georgia , †  March 2, 2005 in Jacksonville , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1993 and 2001 she represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tillie Fowler was born as Tillie Kidd in 1942. Her father, Culver Kidd, was a well-known Georgia regional politician who served on both houses of the state legislature. Until 1964 she studied at Emory University . This was followed by a law degree at the same university. In 1967 she was admitted to the bar. In her home country, however, no law firm was willing to hire a woman. Instead, she was a member of the staff of Congressman Robert Grier Stephens from 1967 to 1970 . In 1970 and 1971, she was an advisor to the White House- affiliated Office of Consumer Affairs .

After their marriage in 1971, Fowler switched from the Democratic Party to the Republicans . Subsequently she worked for some voluntary groups and in youth work. So she officiated from 1982 to 1983 in Jacksonville as regional president of the Junior League . From 1985 to 1992 she was also a member of the Jacksonville City Council, which she chaired in 1989 and 1990. In the 1992 congressional elections , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Florida , where she succeeded Craig T. James on January 3, 1993 . After three re-elections, she was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 2001 .

In 2000 Tillie Fowler declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, she worked as a lawyer at a law firm in the federal capital, Washington. She also became an advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld . He appointed her in 2004 to chair a commission that investigated allegations of sexual assault at the Air Force Academy . Tillie Fowler died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Jacksonville on March 2, 2005.

Web links

• Tillie K. Fowler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Obituary in the Washington Post