Pat Meehan

Patrick Leo " Pat" Meehan ( born October 20, 1955 in Cheltenham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since January 2011, he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Pat Meehan attended to 1974 Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia and then studied until 1978 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick ( Maine). After a subsequent law degree from Temple Law School in Philadelphia, and his was made in 1986 admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. Between 1996 and 2001 he was a district attorney in Delaware County; 2001 to 2008, he served as United States Attorney for the Eastern part of Pennsylvania. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In 1991 and 1994 he was on the staff of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Meehan was the seventh constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Joe Sestak on January 3, 2011. In Congress, he is a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Transportation Committee. It sits in a total of seven sub-committees.

Pat Meehan is married and father of three sons. Private family lives in Drexel Hill.