Kendrick Meek

Kendrick Meek Brett ( born September 6, 1966 in Miami, Florida) is an American politician. Between 2003 and 2011 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Kendrick Meek is the son of former Congressman Carrie P. Meek. He studied until 1989 at the Florida A & M University in Tallahassee. He then worked for the highway patrol of Florida. Politically, he was, like his mother, a member of the Democratic Party, whose youth organization at the state level, he headed. Between 1994 and 1998, Meek deputy in the House of Representatives from Florida; 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 2002 he was in the 17th electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took his mother's successor on 3 January 2003. After three re- elections in which there was no official each opposing candidate in the traditionally democratically elected district, he could pass in Congress until January 3, 2011, four legislative sessions. There he was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means.

In 2010, Meek gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for election to the U.S. Senate. With 20.2 percent of the vote, he finished only third behind the victorious Republican Marco Rubio ( 48.9 percent) and former Republican Governor Charlie Crist ( 29.7 percent ), which ran as an Independent. At times, there was speculation that Meek could break his candidacy to Crist's favor; to it but did not. Kendrick Meek is married and has two children.