Phil Bryant

Dewey Phillip " Phil" Bryant ( born December 9, 1954 in Moorhead, Mississippi) is an American politician. Bryant was elected on November 8, 2011 as the 64th Governor of the state of Mississippi. He put on 10 January 2012 from the oath of office and thus replaced the previous incumbent Haley Barbour from, who could not run again after two terms.

Life

Career

Phil Bryant grew up with his two brothers zoom in humble circumstances; his father earned as a mechanic for diesel engines the livelihood of the family, his mother was a housewife. Bryant spent the earliest childhood in Moorhead, before his family moved to the capital of Mississippi, Jackson, moved. To be able to his later study finance, Bryant worked as a teenager in a tire manufacturer factory for motor vehicles. In Jackson Bryant met his future wife, Deborah know. With her he had two children.

With the aid of a scholarship he earned his degree from the Community College of Hinds County, before he enrolled at the University of Southern Mississippi. Here he obtained his master's degree in law in 1977. He then found work as a correctional officer in the county jail of Hinds County, and was elected in the same year as Deputy Sheriff. After four years as Vice - Sheriff, Bryant 1981 Treasury official of Mississippi, and was as an insurance investigator responsible to identify insurance fraud and to bring to the screen. He spent 10 years in this job.

Political career

Bryant's decision to go into politics, was after a meeting mid-1980s with the then reigning U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the White House in Washington, DC encouraged. 1991 Bryant was chosen for the Republican Party in the House of Representatives from Mississippi. After five years as a deputy of the Republican Governor Kirk Fordice appointed him in 1996 to the Auditor (State Auditor ) of the State of Mississippi, a position which Bryant twelve years, exercised under the Democrat Ronnie Musgrove, until 2008. During this period, he was able to achieve 12 million U.S. dollars in savings for his state.

In 2007, Governor Haley Barbour Bryant appointed to his running mate, his candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. With around 58 percent of the vote Barbour was confirmed as governor in his office and Bryant held the office of Lieutenant Governor.

In 2011, Bryant made ​​himself the election for governor. With 61 percent of the vote he could, in his capacity since 2001, the mayor of Hattiesburg, prevail against his Democratic challenger, Johnny DuPree clear. Bryant's Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves is.