David M. McIntosh

David Martin McIntosh ( born June 8, 1958 in Oakland, California) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2001 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After the death of his father David McIntosh came at the age of five years from Kendallville, Indiana, his mother's hometown. He studied until 1980 at Yale University and was there the founders of the Federalist Society. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Chicago, he was admitted in 1983 as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served on the advisory board to the President for Internal Affairs. He then worked for Vice President Dan Quayle.

In the congressional elections of 1994, McIntosh was in the second electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Philip R. Sharp on January 3, 1995. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2001, three legislative periods. In 2000 he gave up another Congress candidate. Instead, he ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was defeated by Democratic incumbent Frank O'Bannon with 42:57 percent of the vote.

Since 2001 he has been a partner of the Washington-based law firm Mayer Brown. He rejected in 2004 an initially planned for re-election for governor and announced in July 2011, it will seek in the congressional elections of 2012 to return to the U.S. House of Representatives. After incumbent Dan Burton had declared his resignation, McIntosh met in the Primary of his party on Susan Brooks, he was subjected to short.