Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart is a Cuban-American attorney and politician. He was the U.S. representative for Florida's 21st congressional district from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. He retired from Congress in 2011 and his younger brother,Mario Díaz-Balart,who had previously represented Florida's 25th congressional district,succeeded him. He is currently chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute. After leaving Congress,he started a law practice and a consulting firm,both based in Miami,Florida.
John Luigi Mica is an American businessman,consultant and Republican politician who represented Florida's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017. He was defeated by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in the November 8,2016,general election while serving his 12th term in office.
Wayne Edward Whitfield is an American politician and attorney who served as the U.S. representative of Kentucky's 1st congressional district from January 1995,until his resignation in September 2016. He is a member of the Republican Party,and the first to represent the district. The district covers much of the western part of the state,including Hopkinsville,Paducah,Henderson and Kentucky's share of Fort Campbell.
The Florida Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. State of Florida. It is organized as a bicameral body composed of an upper chamber,the Senate,and a lower chamber,the House of Representatives. Article III,Section 1 of the Florida Constitution,adopted in 1968,defines the role of the legislature and how it is to be constituted. The legislature is composed of 160 state legislators. The primary purpose of the legislature is to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws. It meets in the Florida State Capitol building in Tallahassee.
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 United States census,each member represents about 167,637 people. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida,the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III,Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida,adopted in 1968,defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted. The House is composed of 120 members,each elected from a single-member district with a population of approximately 180,000 residents. Legislative districts are drawn on the basis of population figures,provided by the federal decennial census. Representatives' terms begin immediately upon their election.
The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members,each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents,based on population figures from the 2010 U.S. Census. Its composition,powers and duties are established in Article IV of the Michigan Constitution.
Bernard F. Kenny Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician,who represented the 33rd Legislative District in the New Jersey State Senate from 1993 to 2008,after serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1988 to 1993. He served for one day at the end of his tenure in the Senate as President of the Senate.
Patrick Goodchild Halpin is an American politician who served as the fifth county executive of Suffolk County,New York,from 1988 to 1991. Halpin is currently the Chair of the Suffolk County Water Authority.
George Hooks is a Democratic former member of the Georgia State Senate,representing the 14th District from 1991 through 2013. Previously he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1980 through 1990.
Chris Dorworth was a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 34th District,which consisted of a small amount of Orange County and western Seminole County,from 2007 to 2012. In 2012,he ran for re-election in the 29th District,and he lost in an upset to Democratic candidate Mike Clelland.
Joseph Abruzzo is a Democratic politician from Florida. He serves as the Clerk of the Circuit Court &Comptroller for Palm Beach County,an independently elected office established by Florida’s Constitution.
Cam Ward is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Alabama Senate,representing District 14 from 2010 to 2020. He previously represented District 49 of the Alabama House of Representatives from 2002 to 2010.
John Richard Gregg is an American politician,businessman and attorney who served as the 85th and longest-serving Democratic speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2003. He served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003.
Ralph H. Haben,Jr. is an American attorney,lobbyist,and politician who served as the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 1980 to 1982. Haben graduated from the University of Florida in 1964 and Cumberland School of Law in 1967,and began working as a government prosecutor,first for the city of Palmetto,Florida and then for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. He eventually became a judge before running for the Florida House of Representatives in 1972. In the House,he served on numerous committees,including the Criminal Justice Committee,and eventually became Speaker. He left the legislature to run for Florida Comptroller in 1982,but lost the only election in his electoral history. He briefly considered a run for Governor of Florida,but decided instead to become a lobbyist for many large interests in the state legislature.
John E. Thrasher is a former state legislator,businessman,lawyer and lobbyist who served as the 15th President of Florida State University. He was approved by the Florida Board of Governors on November 6,2014 and took office on November 10,2014. On September 11,2020,Thrasher and the university Board of Trustees announced his retirement in a joint statement. In May 2021,Richard McCullough was chosen by Florida State University’s Board of Trustees to succeed Thrasher.
C. Fred Jones was an American politician in the state of Florida.
Robert B. "Bob" Sindler is a Democratic politician who served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1988 to 1998,and who served on the Orange County Commission from 1998 to 2006. He is currently a candidate for the Florida Senate in 2016.
Robert Alexander Andrade is a Republican member of the Florida Legislature representing the state's 2nd House district,which includes parts of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
Donald “Donnie”Joseph Gedling was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995 representing the 18th district. He was also a tobacco farmer from Breckinridge County,Kentucky.
