Zach Wamp

Zachary Paul "Zach" Wamp (born October 28, 1957 in Fort Benning , Georgia ) is an American politician . Between 1995 and 2011 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Zach Wamp attended the McCallie School in Chattanooga until 1976 . He then studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . He then worked in the real estate industry. He also began a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1994 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Democrat Marilyn Lloyd on January 3, 1995 . After seven re-elections, where he won against John Wolfe in 2002 and 2004 , he was able to complete eight terms in Congress until January 3, 2011 . These were shaped by the events of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Iraq war . In Congress, Wamp was a member of the Grants Committee and two of its sub-committees.

In 2010, Zach Wamp declined to run for Congress again; instead, he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Tennessee. In the primary he was defeated by the eventual winner Bill Haslam . He has two children with his wife, Kimberly. The family lives in Chattanooga.

Web links

Commons : Zach Wamp - collection of images, videos and audio files

Zach Wamp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Wamp, Zach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wamp, Zachary Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fort Benning , Georgia