Jim Bacchus

James "Jim" Bacchus ( born June 21, 1949 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American politician. Between 1991 and 1995 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jim Bacchus visited to 1967 the Lyman High School in Longwood (Florida ) and studied until 1971 at Vanderbilt University in his hometown of Nashville. This was followed up in 1973 to study at Yale University. From 1971 to 1977 he was a soldier in the U.S. Army. In the years 1974 to 1978 Bacchus was on the staff of Governor Reubin Askew. After studying law at Florida State University in Tallahassee and its made ​​in 1978 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

In the years 1979 and 1981 Jim Bacchus again worked for Askew, after he had been appointed commercial agent of the United States. From 1986 to 1987 he was a consultant to the Planning Commission of the State of Florida. Politically, Bacchus joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1990 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bill Nelson on January 3, 1991. After a re-election in 1992, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1995, two legislative sessions. During his second term from 1993 to 1995 he represented as successor to E. Clay Shaw the 15th district of his state.

1994 renounced Jim Bacchus on another candidacy. From 1995 to 2003 he was a judge at the court of appeal of the World Trade Organization. Since 2004, he led a Miami-based international operations and specialized in commercial law firm. In 2007, Bacchus was also a member of a commission of inquiry set up by the Ministry of Defense, which should investigate breaches of duty in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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