Steve Southerland (Florida politician)

William Steve Southerland Jr. ( born October 10, 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Steve Southerland studied after high school until 1987 at the Troy State University in Alabama and then until 1989 at Jefferson State Community College, also in Alabama. He then became an entrepreneur in the funeral industry. To date, he is the president and co-owner of the company founded in 1955 Southerland Family Funeral Homes. He was also the founding of the company Genesis, Granite & Stone LLC and K & B Land and Timber Company, LLC. involved. Southerland was a member and Chairman of the State Agency Florida Board of Funeral Directors which deals with aspects of funeral being. He also served as chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Bay County and an advisory board of the Salvation Army.

Politically, Southerland joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 2010 he was in the second constituency of Florida with 52 percent of the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of his defeated Democrat Allen Boyd on January 3, 2011. His election victory was in the then Federal trend in favor of the Republicans. Southerland is a member of the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Natural Resources, and in five sub-committees.

Within the party, he counts as a member of the Republican Study Committee to the conservative wing of his party. Southerland is married and has four children with his wife Susan.