Jim Davis (Florida politician)

James Oscar "Jim" Davis ( born October 11, 1957 in Tampa, Florida) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2007 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jim Davis visited until 1975 the Jesuit High School in Tampa and then studied until 1979 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia). After a subsequent study of law at the College of Law at the University of Florida in Gainesville and its made ​​in 1982 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. In 1988, he joined Tampa in a large law firm.

Politically, Davis joined the Democratic Party. Between 1988 and 1996 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida, where he led the Democratic group between 1994 and 1996. In the congressional elections of 1996 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 Sam Gibbons on January 3, 1997. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2007, five legislative sessions. In 2002 he was one of 81 Democratic Congressman who voted for the Iraq war.

2006 Davis renounced to another Congress candidate. Instead, he competed unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of Florida: He came to 45.1 percent of the vote and defeated the victorious Republican Charlie Crist. Since 2007 he works in a law firm in Tampa. In 2010, there was speculation about a possible candidacy of Davis in March 2011 for the office of mayor of Tampa, but which then failed to materialize. Jim Davis is married and lives with his family in Tampa.