Michael Forbes

Michael Patrick Forbes ( * July 16, 1952 in Riverhead, New York) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2001 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Patrick Forbes graduated in 1970 at the Westhampton Beach High School in Westhampton and in 1983 at the State University of New York at Albany with a Bachelor of Arts. He worked in the newspaper business his family in Riverhead. Then he managed 1971, the Suffolk County Legislature campaign. He was on the staff of Republican U.S. Senators Alphonse M. D' Amato of New York and Connie Mack of Florida. He went to the same function in the Speaker Perry B. Duryea Jr. and Rep. John Behan from the New York State Assembly, and after Caesar Trunzo from the Senate from New York. He has worked in the Small Business Administration. He worked as a regional director in New York and then as a liaison officer ( principal liaison ) between the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Chamber of Commerce. In the congressional elections of 1994, Forbes was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George J. Hochbrueckner on 4 January 1995. He was re-elected twice in a row. During this time he joined in 1999 to the Democratic Party over. In 2000 he suffered during his fourth re-election candidacy defeat and retired after January 3, 2001, from the Congress of. Then he opened his own company and since then has worked in public relations. He also blogs for the Huffington Post.