Dave McCurdy

David Keith "Dave" McCurdy ( born March 30, 1950 in Canadian, Texas) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1995 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dave McCurdy attended the common schools and then studied until 1975 at the University of Oklahoma, among others, Jura. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. Between 1977 and 1978, he studied international economics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. McCurdy was also in the Reserve of the U.S. Air Force, in which he brought it up to Major.

McCurdy was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1975 and 1977 he was Deputy Attorney General of Oklahoma. He then worked until 1980 as a private lawyer. In that year he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he replaced Tom Steed on 3 January 1981. After he was confirmed in each case in the next six elections, he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1995. Between 1991 and 1993 he was chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He was also a member of several subcommittees.

In 1994, McCurdy opted not to run again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After that, he was chairman of the McCurdy Group LLC; In 1998 he took over the chairmanship of the Association of manufacturers of electronic devices ( Electronic Industries Alliance). In February 2007, McCurdy was president of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Dave McCurdy now lives with his wife, the child psychologist Dr. Pam McCurdy, and his three children in McLean ( Virginia). After the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, he was considered a possible candidate for the post of defense minister. But the president ultimately Reserve left the previous incumbent Robert Gates on this post.