Patrick Murphy (Florida politician)

Patrick Erin Murphy ( born March 30, 1983 in Miami, Florida) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Patrick Murphy attended by 2002 the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. Subsequently, he studied until 2006 at the University of Miami accounting and reporting. At that time he came for drunk driving and a false driver's license with the law in conflict. After his studies he worked as a chartered accountant for several companies. Subsequently, he was vice president of his family's construction company. While the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he was there for a few months in use to help in disposing of the spilled oil. Politically, he joined the first on the Republican Party. In 2011, he switched to the Democrats.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Murphy was for an expensive and hard campaign in the 18th Election District of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Ileana Ros -Lehtinen took on 3 January 2013, moved to the newly created 26th district. Murphy's Republican opponent Allen West, who had represented the 22nd District of Florida until then in Congress, appealed against the election results a contradiction. He demanded a recount of the votes. After these had failed with 50.4 % against 49.6 % for Murphy's favor, West confessed on 20 November 2012, a defeat. Murphy is the youngest member in the 113th Congress.