Randy Kuhl

John R. " Randy " Kuhl Jr. ( born April 19, 1943 in Bath, New York) is an American politician. Between 2005 and 2009 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1966, Randy Kuhl graduated from Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent law degree from Syracuse University and his 1969 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1981 and 1986 he was a deputy in the New York State Assembly; 1987 to 2004 he was a member of the State Senate. During this time he sat down unsuccessfully for a division of the State of New York in two parts a.

In the congressional elections of 2004, Kuhl was the 29th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Amo Houghton on January 3, 2005. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2009, two legislative sessions. In this time, the final phase of the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Kuhl was a member of the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He also belonged to a total of six subcommittees. He was against abortion, against gun control, against tax increases and against online poker games.

In the 2008 elections Kuhl narrowly lost with 49:51 percent of the vote to Democrat Eric Massa, whom he had defeated in 2006. Today he lives in Hammondsport. He is divorced and has three grown sons.