Connie Mack III

Connie Mack III ( born October 29, 1940 in Philadelphia as Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III ) is a former American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Florida in both chambers of Congress.

Mack's grandfather, who was born under the name of Cornelius McGillicuddy, was under the nickname Connie Mack to one of the most famous personalities in American baseball sport. He was the manager with the longest tenure in the history of Major League Baseball and holds the record of wins in the top division of the United States. Maternal grandfather was Mack Morris Sheppard, who sat from 1913 to 1941 for Texas in the U.S. Senate.

1958 Connie Mack made ​​his high school graduation in Fort Myers, whereupon he began studying at the University of Florida. This he graduated in 1966 as Bachelor of Arts. He then worked until 1982 in the banking industry before moving into politics. On January 3, 1983, he went as a representative of the 13th Congressional District of Florida, a House of Representatives of the United States. There he remained after two re-election until January 3, 1989.

Directly after Mack was elected to the United States in the Senate, where he became the successor of not more candidates Democrat Lawton Chiles. In 1994, he was also successful in the re-election; Six years later, he no longer went to. From 1997 to 2001 he served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference de facto leader of the Republican Party.

After his retirement from the Senate Connie Mack first moved back from politics and became CEO of a Cancer Research Institute in Tampa. In 2005, he U.S. President George W. Bush handed over the management of a bipartisan advisory team to prepare the income tax reform. His son, Connie was also politicians and belonged together with his wife Mary, widow of Sonny Bono, by 2013 the U.S. House of Representatives on.