James Lankford

James Paul Lankford ( born March 4, 1968 in Dallas, Texas) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the State of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Lankford studied until 1990 at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1994 he graduated from Southwestern Theological Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth. He subsequently worked for the Baptist church. Between 1996 and 2009 he was director of the church's youth camp at Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center in Oklahoma. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 2010 Lankford in the fifth electoral district of Oklahoma was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the solutions adopted to Governor Mary Fallin on January 3, 2011. He is a member of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He is also a five subcommittees. In the congressional elections in 2012 Lankford sat down with 59:37 percent of the vote against the Democrats by Tom Guild.

With his wife, Cindy James Lankford has two daughters.