E. Clay Shaw, Jr.

Eugene Clay Shaw ( born April 19, 1939 in Miami, Florida; † September 10, 2013 ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Clay Shaw first visited the Edison Senior High School in his hometown of Miami; then he studied at Stetson University in DeLand and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Following this, he went again to the Stetson University, where he received his Juris Doctor in 1966 from the College of Law and was a practicing lawyer. He was 1968 first deputy litigator the city Fort Lauderdale; then he was there top urban prosecutor to 1969 and Deputy Judge of the City Court until 1971. Having serves as vice mayor of Fort Lauderdale from 1973 to 1975, he practiced from 1975 to 1980 the office of mayor of the city.

Shaw was in 1980 elected as a Republican to Congress and represented there in the House of Representatives from 3 January 1981 to 3 January 2007 the first 12, then 15 and finally 22 electoral district of Florida. In the 2006 elections, he defeated his Democratic challenger Ron Klein.