Hansen Clarke

Hansen Hashim Clarke ( born March 2, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. From 2011 to 2013 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hansen Clarke, whose father is from Bangladesh, who attended public schools in Detroit, the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, the Governor's Academy in Massachusetts and then to 1984 Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. After a subsequent law degree from the Georgetown University in Washington DC and its made ​​in 1987 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Clarke joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1989 and 1990 he served on the staff of Congressman John Conyers. In 1991 and between 1999 and 2003 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In 2005, Hansen Clarke ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Detroit. From 2003 to 2010 he was a member of the Senate of Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 2010, he was elected as a candidate of his party in the 13th electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick on January 3, 2011. He had defeated in the Democratic primary with 47 percent of the vote, the former long-time deputy; Kilpatrick had come to 41 percent. In connection with the actual elections, he managed a ungefährdeter victory against Republican John Hauler. He was one of the few Democrats who were able to move into the new Congress in these elections. In the 112th Congress Clarke was a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. After the regular contemporary clean slate of the constituencies in the wake of the census in 2010 Clarke went to in the primaries in the newly formed 14th legislative District of Michigan against his official and party colleague Gary Peters (formerly the 13th district ) and subject, so his tenure in the House on January 3 2013 ended.