Gus Bilirakis

Gus Michael Bilirakis ( born February 8, 1963 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American politician. Since 2007 he represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Between 1981 and 1983, visited Gus Bilirakis, St. Petersburg Junior College. Subsequently, he studied until 1986 at the University of Florida in Gainesville political science. After a subsequent law degree from Stetson University and his made ​​in 1989 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. He specialized in probate and real estate law. Politically, Bilirakis joined the Republican Party. He supported the election campaigns of his father Michael, who represented 1983-2007 the ninth congressional district of the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the same time he began his own political career.

Between 1998 and 2006 Gus Bilirakis sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida. In the congressional elections of 2006 he was in the ninth district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded his father on 3 January 2007. After the previous two elections, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. Since he was also confirmed in the elections of 2010, he will take another two-year term in Congress on January 3, 2011. Bilirakis is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Veterans Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and several subcommittees. He is married and lives privately in Palm Harbor.