Dennis A. Ross

Dennis Alan Ross ( born October 18, 1959 in Lakeland, Florida) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dennis Ross visited until 1977 the Lakeland Senior High School and studied at the University of Florida and to 1981 at Auburn University in Alabama then. After a subsequent law degree from the Cumberland School of Law and its made ​​in 1987 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession. In the meantime, he also worked for several computer companies.

Politically, Ross joined the Republican Party. Between 2000 and 2008 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida. In the congressional elections of 2010 he was in the twelfth election District of Florida with 48 percent of the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of not more candidates Adam Putnam on January 3, 2011. He had previously taken already in the Florida legislature whose former seat. In Congress, Ross is a member of the education and labor committee and two subcommittees. Within his party he belongs to the conservative Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus, the merger of the supporters of the Tea Party movement, to.