Trey Gowdy

Harold Watson " Trey " Gowdy ( born August 22, 1964 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Trey Gowdy attended until 1982, the Spartanburg High School. Then he studied until 1986 at Baylor University in Waco (Texas ), the subject of history. After a subsequent law studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and his 1989 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the meantime, he worked as a legal assistant ( clerk ) to a judge at the South Carolina Court of Appeals and in Federal Judge George Ross Anderson. Between 1994 and 2000 he was Deputy Attorney General; 2001 to 2010, he served as a prosecutor in the seventh judicial district of his state. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Gowdy was the fourth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Bob Inglis took 3 January 2011, he had clearly defeated in the Republican Primary. In Congress, he is a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in six subcommittees. In the 2012 congressional elections, he sat down with 65:34 percent of the vote against Democrat by Deb Morrow.

Trey Gowdy is married and has two children.