Peter Deutsch

Peter R. German ( born April 1, 1957 in New York City ) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2005 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter visited German until 1975, the Horace Mann School in New York City and thereafter until 1979, the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law degree from Yale University and his made ​​in 1982 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Broward County in Florida. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1981 and 1982 he headed the Medicare founded by him information program in Broward County. From 1982 to 1993 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida.

In the congressional elections of 1992 was in the then newly created German 20th electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1993. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, six legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the Iraq war.

In 2004, Peter German renounced in favor of an unsuccessful candidacy for the U.S. Senate on a possible re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He had already failed in the primaries of his party at Betty Castor, which in turn was defeated by Republican Mel Martinez.