Frederica Wilson

Frederica Wilson ( born November 5, 1942 in Miami, Florida) is an American politician. Since 2011, it represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederica Wilson studied until 1963 at Fisk University in Nashville (Tennessee ) and then to 1972 at the University of Miami. Then she headed for some time an elementary school in Miami. Between 1992 and 1998 she served on the school committee in Miami -Dade County.

Politically, Wilson joined the Democratic Party. Between 1998 and 2002 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Florida; 2002 to 2010 she served on the State Senate and was there since the Whip Democratic Group. In 2008, she supported the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama. In the congressional elections of 2010, it was in the 17th electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected, where they prevailed without a Republican opponent with 86.2 percent of the vote against the Independent Roderick D. Vereen. So she was one of only nine newly elected democratic members of the House of Representatives, where she became the successor of Kendrick Meek on January 3, 2011. He had given up for reelection in favor of an unsuccessful bid for the office of Governor of Florida.

In Congress, Frederica Wilson is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and in a total of three subcommittees. She is widowed and has three grown children.

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