Mike Kelly (Pennsylvania)

George Joseph "Mike" Kelly, Jr. ( born May 10, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mike Kelly studied until 1970 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend (Indiana). He was then car dealers. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. Between 1992 and 1995 he sat in the school committee of the city Butler; 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the County Council of Butler County.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Kelly was the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of him previously defeated Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper on January 3, 2011. He is a member of the Committee on Labour and Education, Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in a total of six subcommittees. He is also a six Congressional Caucuses.

Kelly is married. He and his wife have four grown children. The couple now has four grandchildren.