Daniel Webster (Florida politician)

Daniel A. Webster (* April 27, 1949 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Webster is a distant relative of the same politician from the first half of the 19th century, Daniel Webster ( 1782-1852 ), among others, former Secretary of State of the United States. At the age of seven years he came with his parents to Orlando in Florida. After primary school he studied until 1971 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, among other electronics. After that he began in his family's company to work, which deals with the construction of air conditioners and heaters. Today he is the director of this company.

Politically, Webster was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1980 and 1998 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida; from 1996 he was its president. From 1998 to 2008 Webster was a member of the State Senate. There he directed from time to time the Judiciary Committee and was from 2006 to 2008 republican faction boss. In 2004, he was considering a short-term candidacy for the U.S. Senate, but he withdrew again.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Webster was in the eighth constituency of Florida with 56 percent of the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of his defeated Democrat Alan Grayson on January 3, 2011. He is married and has six children and five grandchildren.

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