Bill Schuette

William Duncan "Bill" Schuette ( born October 13, 1953 in Midland, Michigan) is an American politician. Between 1985 and 1991 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bill Schuette visited until 1972, the Herbert Henry Dow High School in Midland and then studied until 1976 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. According to a subsequent law studies at the University of San Francisco and its made ​​in 1979 admitted to the bar he began in his new professional work. Politically, Schuette joined the Republican Party. In the years 1972, 1974 and 1982 he was a delegate to the regional party conferences in Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1984 he was elected the tenth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Donald J. Albosta on January 3, 1985. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1991 three legislative periods. There he was at times a member of the Budget Committee, the Agriculture Committee and the Select Committee on Aging.

In 1990 he abandoned a bid again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After that he was in the years 1991 to 1993 Minister of Agriculture of the State of Michigan. From 1995-2003 Schuette sat in the Senate from Michigan. Subsequently, he served between 2003 and 2009 as a judge on the Court of Appeal of that State. In 2010 he was elected as the successor to Mike Cox for Attorney General of Michigan. A position he took up on 1 January 2011.