Carl C. Perkins

Carl Christopher Perkins ( born August 6, 1954 in Washington DC) is an American politician. Between 1984 and 1993 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carl Perkins is the son of Congressman Carl D. Perkins (1912-1984), who represented 1949-1984 the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives. He graduated in 1972, the Fort Hunt High School in Alexandria ( Virginia). Then he studied until 1976 at Davidson College in North Carolina. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1978 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession.

Politically, Perkins was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1981 and 1984 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. After his father's death he was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the seventh seat of Kentucky, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1984. Since he was re-elected for the following legislative sessions, he was able to represent his district until its dissolution on January 3, 1993 at the Congress.

In 1992 he gave up a possible candidacy in another constituency. Two years later, he came into conflict with the law. He came first in the wake of the Congress Bank scandal and was sentenced to 21 months in prison for embezzlement of campaign funds and other offenses. After his release from prison, he became a pastor of the Presbyterian church.