Mac Thornberry

William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry ( born July 15, 1958 in Clarendon, Donley County, Texas) is an American politician. Since 1995 he represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mac Thornberry visited to 1976 Clarendon High School and then studied until 1980 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. After a subsequent law degree in 1983 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. In 1993 he founded his own law firm in Amarillo. Between 1983 and 1988 he was a consultant to the congressman Tom Loeffler (until 1985 ) and Larry Combest. Between 1988 and 1989 he worked for the State Department of the United States; after that he worked as a lawyer again. He also worked with on his family's ranch.

Politically, Thornberry joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1994 he was in the 13th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bill Sarpalius on January 3, 1995. After the previous eight elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee and in constant secret special committee and two subcommittees. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

Mac Thornberry is married and lives privately in Clarendon.