Charlie Gonzalez

Charles A. "Charlie" Gonzalez ( born May 5, 1945 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 1999 to 2013 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charlie Gonzalez is the son of longtime Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez. He attended until 1965, Thomas A. Edison High School in San Antonio and then studied until 1969 at the University of Texas at Austin. After a subsequent law degree from St. Mary's School of Law and was admitted as an attorney of his 1972 he began to work in this profession. At times, he also worked as a teacher. He was also a member of the Air National Guard in Texas. Between 1983 and 1987 and from 1989 to 1987 he was a judge in Bexar County at two different dishes. Politically, he was like his father, a member of the Democratic Party. Henry Gonzalez worked successfully to secure his son his successor as congressman.

After the successful nomination by the Democratic Party Charlie Gonzalez was elected at the Congress elected in 1998 in the 20th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he succeeded his father on 3 January 1999. In 2008, he supported Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. After six re- elections, he opted not to run again in 2012 and retired on January 3, 2013, the Congress of. There he was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on House Administration, and in five sub-committees.