Trey Gowdy

Trey Gowdy (2011)

Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy (* 22. August 1964 in Greenville , South Carolina ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2011 to 2018 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives . He was a member of the House Intelligence Committee and chaired the House Oversight Committee.

Career

Trey Gowdy attended Spartanburg High School until 1982 . He then studied history at Baylor University in Waco ( Texas ) until 1986 . After graduating from the University of South Carolina at Columbia with a law degree and admission to the bar in 1989, he began working in this profession. He has since worked as a legal assistant ( clerk ) to a judge at the South Carolina Court of Appeals and to federal judge George Ross Anderson . Between 1994 and 2000 he was assistant federal attorney ; from 2001 to 2010 he served as a prosecutor in the seventh judicial district of his state. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party .

In the 2010 election to the US House of Representatives , Gowdy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Bob Inglis on January 3, 2011 , whom he was clearly in the Republican primary had defeated. In the 2012 election he prevailed against the Democrat Deb Morrow with 65:34 percent of the vote . He was confirmed in the 2014 and 2016 elections and is a member of the 115th Congress of the United States , which met on January 3, 2017 .

In Congress , Gowdy was first a member of the Education and Labor Committee and later became a member of the Justice Committee , the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Ethics Committee . From 2014 he headed the committee investigating the Benghazi attack . In addition, he is or was a member of several sub-committees. After Jason Chaffetz retired, he took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in mid-2017 .

At the end of January 2018, he announced that he would not run again in the 2018 election. He stated that he wanted to return to the judicial service. His mandate ended on January 3, 2019.

As a guest in four episodes of the Medical Detectives series , he commented on criminal cases that he had worked on as a prosecutor.

Gowdy is married; the couple has a son and a daughter.

Web links

• Web presence at the Congress (English)
• Trey Gowdy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Trey Gowdy in the nndb (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ A top House Republican just split from one of his party's key findings on Russia. That's a very big deal.
2. ^ South Carolina Congressional District 4 election results. In: NBC News Election Center .
3. ↑ Jeremy Herb, Eli Watkins: Rep. Trey Gowdy not seeking re-election. In: CNN.com , January 31, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ Trey Gowdy. In: IMDb.com (English).