Ted Poe

Lloyd "Ted" Poe ( born September 10, 1948 in Temple, Texas ) is an American politician. Since 2005 he represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ted Poe studied until 1970 at the Abilene Christian University in Political Science. Between 1970 and 1976 he was a member of the Reserve of the United States Air Force. After studying law at the University of Houston and his 1973 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. From 1973 to 1981 he was District Attorney in Harris County. Afterwards he worked until 2003 in the same district as a judge.

Politically, Poe joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 2004 he was in the second electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Jim Turner on January 3, 2005. After the previous three elections, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as in six sub-committees. It represents essentially the positions of his party and is a member of the Tea Party Movement Tea Party Caucus as well as related of the conservative Republican Study Committee.

Poe is married and lives in Humble private.