Bill McCollum
Ira William " Bill" McCollum ( born July 12, 1944 in Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 2001 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Bill McCollum attended to 1962 Hernando High School. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville and its made in 1968 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. Between 1969 and 1972 he served in the legal department of the U.S. Navy, the Reserve he served until 1992.
Politically, McCollum joined the Republican Party. From 1976 to 1980 he was the Chairman of the Seminole County and the fifth congressional district. Between 1984 and 2000 he was a delegate to every Republican National Conventions. In the congressional elections of 1980 he was in the fifth district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Kelly on January 3, 1981. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 2001, ten legislative periods. Since 1993 he represented there as a successor to Bill Young the eighth district of his state. During his time in Congress, he was involved in the implementation of the failed impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
In November 2000, McCollum opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he competed in this year and in 2004 unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate: First, he spent four years later foundered on Democrats Bill Nelson, then in the Republican primary to Mel Martínez. In the meantime, he worked as a lawyer. From 2 January 2007 to 4 January 2011, he practiced as a successor to Charlie Crist from the Office of the Attorney General of Florida. In 2010, he endeavored to gain his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections and once again succeed Charlie Crist. Although he was considered a favorite long, he ultimately succumbed to the later with the actual election victorious Rick Scott. Bill McCollum is married to Ingrid Seebohm, with whom he has three sons.