Tom Barrett (politician)

Thomas Mark "Tom" Barrett ( born December 8, 1953 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Since 2004, Barrett mayor of his hometown of Milwaukee.

Barrett studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1976. In 1980 he received at the Law School of the University his Juris Doctor. From 1980 to 1982 Barrett worked as an assistant (law ​​clerk ) for Judge Robert W. Warren, who worked at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. After that, Barrett became an independent lawyer.

In 1984 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly and was hers until 1989. As early as 1982 had unsuccessfully running for a seat in the assembly. Following Barrett sat from 1989 to 1993 as a Senator in the Senate of Wisconsin.

He was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1992 and represented there, from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 2003, the state of Wisconsin in the House of Representatives of the United States. In 2002, he no longer stand for re- election, but tried to be set up as a Democratic candidate for governor elections. Here, however, he lost to Jim Doyle.

Since 2004, Barrett is the mayor of Milwaukee. 2008, his re-election. In November 2009, Barrett announced to want to run in 2010 for the office of governor of Wisconsin. In this election, but was defeated with a vote share of 46.6 percent of the Republican Scott Walker.