Elijah Cummings

Elijah Eugene Cummings ( born January 18, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American politician. Since 1996 he represents the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elijah Cummings attended until 1969, the Baltimore City College High School and then studied until 1973 at Howard University in Washington. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and 1976, his admission to the bar he began to work in his new profession. In the meantime, he was Chief Judge of the Maryland Moot Court Board. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1983 and 1996 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland, he served as Chairman since 1995.

After the resignation of Kweisi Mfume deputies Cummings was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the seventh seat of Maryland, where he began his work on 16 April 1996. According to previously nine elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. In the congressional elections of 2012, Cummings began with 76:21 percent of the vote against the Republicans by Frank Mirabile. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Cummings is a member of the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, the Committee on Government Reform and the Joint Economic Committee and four subcommittees. He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and was temporarily Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, the concentration of African-American members of Congress.