Phil English

Philip Sheridan " Phil" English ( born June 20, 1956 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2009 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Phil English studied until 1978 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He then worked as Committee Staff Aide in the management of the Senate of Pennsylvania. Between 1985 and 1988, he served as controller in Erie County. From 1990 to 1994 he was Head of Staff of then State Senator Melissa Hart, who should be members of Congress later also. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1984, 2000 and 2004, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, where Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1994, English was the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Tom Ridge on January 3, 1995. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2009, seven legislative sessions. Since 2003 he has represented the third district where his state. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

In 2008, Phil English was not re-elected.