Albert Wynn

Albert Russell Wynn ( born September 10, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2008 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Albert Wynn attended until 1970 the DuVal High School in Lanham (Maryland) and thereafter until 1973, the University of Pittsburgh. He then studied political science at Howard University. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer in 1982, he founded his own law firm. From 1977 to 1982 he headed the Consumer Protection Commission in Prince George's County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1983 to 1987 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; 1987 to 1993 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Wynn was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Thomas McMillen on January 3, 1993. After seven elections he could remain until his resignation in May 2008 in Congress. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Wynn was at times a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. In 2002 he voted for the Iraq war.

In 2008, he lost in the primaries of his party against Donna Edwards. On 31 May 2008, he subsequently went back early from his mandate. After that, he was an employee of a lobbyist firm that represents the interests of various sectors in Washington.

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