Jeff Flake

Jeffrey " Jeff" Flake ( born December 31, 1962 in Snowflake, Arizona) is an American politician. Between 2001 and 2003 he represented the first electoral district of the State of Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 2003 to 2013, he represented the Sixth Circuit. In the election to the U.S. Senate in 2012, he won against Democrat Richard Carmona and represents since January 3, 2013 in the Arizona Senate of the United States.

Early years

Jeff Flake studied until 1987 at Brigham Young University in Provo ( Utah) first political science and international relations. In the early 1980s he worked as a missionary for the Mormon in southern Africa on the road and was executive director of the Foundation for the construction of democracy in Namibia ( Foundation for Democracy ). In 1987, he worked for a service company ( Public Affairs Firm) and in 1992 was director of the Goldwater Institute.

Political career

Jeff Flake is a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 2000, he was elected for the first constituency of Arizona in place of Matt Salmon in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a 54 percent of the vote, to enforce against David Mendoza, the candidate of the Democratic Party. On January 3, 2001, he went to the mandate and was re-elected at subsequent elections with significant results of at least 66 percent of the vote (partly unopposed Democrats ) every two years, most recently in 2010.

Flake House of Representatives member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( Committee on Foreign Affairs ), the committee that deals with the treatment of the mineral resources of the country ( Committee on Natural Resources) and the Committee to control and reform the government ( Committee on Oversight and Government reform). Originally a supporter of the Iraq war and the USA PATRIOT Act, he went in the following years in conservative opposition, giving him a 2004 internal party struggle candidacy (primary challenge) earned. Flake was brought again and again as a possible candidate for the office of the governor of Arizona or for a seat in the U.S. Senate this week.

In summer 2012, Flake was eventually nominated by the Republicans of his State for the Senate seat that Jon Kyl had held. With his opponent, Democrat Richard Carmona, he delivered up according to the polls long a break-even race. Flake sat down in the more Republican-dominated state on 6 November 2012, 50 percent of the vote against 45 percent by Carmona. In January 2013, he took up his seat in the Senate.

Jeff Flake is married to Cheryl Flake. The couple has five children.