Michael Patrick Flanagan

Michael Patrick Flanagan ( born November 9, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 1997 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Flanagan attended Lane Technical High School and then studied until 1984 at Loyola University in Chicago. After studying law at the same university and his 1991 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the years 1984 to 1988 and again during the Gulf War in 1991 and 1992 he served as a captain of artillery in the U.S. Army. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1994, Flanagan was in the fifth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of him previously defeated Democrat Dan Rostenkowski on January 3, 1995. Since he lost in 1996 against Rod Blagojevich, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1997. There he was a member of the Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Government Reform and the Joint Committee on Telecommunications. In his voting record in Congress Flanagan was largely on the Republican party line.

Today, Michael Flanagan is president of the consulting firm Flanagan Consulting LLC.

568732
de