Joe García

Jose Antonio "Joe" Garcia Jr. ( * October 19, 1963 in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joe Garcia is the son of a refugee from Cuba married couple. He attended Belen Jesuit to 1982, the Preparatory School and then the Miami Dade Community College. Then he studied until 1987 at the University of Miami political science. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1991, he was admitted to the bar. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1991 and 2000 he led the Florida Public Service Commission. He was also a member of various other committees and is a board member of the Cuban American National Foundation, which he was president in the meantime. He was also a Democratic Party chairman in Miami -Dade County. In 2009 he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Director in the Office of Minority Econimic Impact, part of the Department of Energy.

In the years 2008 and 2010, Garcia applied for each still unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he lost in his second candidacy against Republican David Rivera. In the congressional elections of 2012, but was then with 54 percent of the vote against Rivera in the newly created 26th electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 2013.

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