Max Sandlin

Max A. Sandlin ( born September 29, 1952 in Texarkana, Arkansas) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2005 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Max Sandlin attended Atlanta High School in Texas. Then he studied until 1975 at Baylor University in Waco. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1978 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work as a lawyer. Between 1986 and 1996 he served in various courts in Texas as a judge. He then practiced as a private attorney. He also worked in the banking industry and the energy sector.

Politically, Sandlin joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1996, he was the first electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jim Chapman on January 3, 1997. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, four legislative sessions. There he was at times a member of the Committee of Ways and Means, the Finance Committee and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In his time as a Member of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. In 2004, he was defeated by Republican Louie Gohmert.

Max Sandlin is married to the former Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Congressman from South Dakota. He has five children and one grandchild.