Hal Rogers

Harold Dallas " Hal " Rogers ( born December 31, 1937 in Barrier, Wayne County, Kentucky) is an American politician. Since 1981 he represents the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hal Rogers first attended the Wayne County High School. Then he studied until 1957 at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. This was followed up in 1962 to further study at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. In the meantime, he was also a member of the National Guard of Kentucky. After studying law at the University of Kentucky and his 1964 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Between 1969 and 1980, Rogers Attorney in Pulaski County and Rockcastle County.

Rogers was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1976 and 2008 he took part in all the Republican National Convention as a delegate. In the congressional elections of 1980 he was in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Tim Lee Carter on January 3, 1981. After he was in all subsequent elections confirmed in each case, he can exercise his mandate until today. His current term in Congress runs until January 3, 2013. Rogers is chairman of the Appropriations Committee and a member of six Congressional Caucuses. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

Hal Rogers is married to his second wife. He has from his first marriage with Shirley Rogers died in 1995, three children.