Ginny Brown-Waite

Virginia " Ginny " Brown -Waite ( born October 5, 1943 in Albany, New York) is an American politician. Between 2003 and 2011, she represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ginny Brown -Waite visited in Albany until 1976, the State University of New York. She then studied until 1984 at Russell Sage College in Troy and earned a master's degree there. She then worked in the administration of the Senate from New York. In the 1980s she moved into the Hernando County, Florida, where she was between 1990 and 1992 for a term district administrator ( County Commissioner). Politically, Brown -Waite joined the Republican Party. From 1992 to 2002, she was sitting in the Senate from Florida, which she was president in 2000. There they stood up for the death penalty.

In the congressional elections of 2002, she was in the fifth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Karen Thurman on January 3, 2003. After three elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2011, four legislative sessions. There she was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means. In addition, she served on two subcommittees. She was a ban on online gambling and declined to control of private gun ownership.

In 2010, Ginny Brown -Waite waived for health reasons for reelection. She was married to the late Harvey Waite.