Milton Robert Carr

Milton Robert " Bob" Carr ( born March 27, 1943 in Janesville, Wisconsin) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1995 he represented two times the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Milton Carr attended the common schools and then studied until 1965 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1969 admitted to the bar he began in Lansing (Michigan) to work in his new profession. From 1970 to 1972 he was Deputy Attorney General of Michigan. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1974 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles E. Chamberlain on January 3, 1975. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1981 three legislative periods. At times he was a member of the Armed Services Committee. For the 1980 elections, he was defeated by Republican James Whitney Dunn. Two years later, he managed to regain his position of Dunn. After five elections he could spend in Congress between January 1983 and January 3, 1995 3 six more terms. Since 1993, he acted as the successor of J. Bob Traxler the eighth district of Michigan. Carr was at times a member of the Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Transportation.

In 1994, Carr renounced in favor of a then unsuccessful candidacy for the U.S. Senate on a possible re-election to the House of Representatives. Since 2005 he works for a law firm in Washington and as a lobbyist.

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