Ken Bentsen, Jr.

Kenneth E. " Ken " Bentsen Jr. ( born June 3, 1959 in Houston, Texas) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2003 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ken Bentsen, nephew of longtime U.S. Senator and later U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, went to 1977 Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. Then he studied until 1982 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. This was followed up in 1985 to study at the American University in Washington DC of. In the years 1983-1987 Bentsen worked on the staff of Congressman Ronald D. Coleman. From 1985 to 1987 he was also on the staff of the Budget Committee of the Congress. Otherwise, he worked as an investment banker. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1994, Bentsen was selected in the 25th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Michael A. Andrews on January 3, 1995. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2003, four legislative sessions. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

In 2004, Bentsen gave up another candidacy. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Today Ken Bentsen directs the Washington office of the Securities Industries and Financial Markets Association. He is married and has two children.