Ric Keller

Richard " Ric " Keller ( born September 5, 1964 in Johnson City, Tennessee) is an American politician. Between 2001 and 2009 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ric Keller visited to 1982 Boone High School in Orlando. Then he studied until 1986 at the East Tennessee State University in his native Johnson City. After a subsequent law degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and its place in 1992, admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Keller joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 2000 he was in the eighth constituency of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bill McCollum on 3 January 2001. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2009, four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Iraq war. Keller was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, the Judiciary Committee and several subcommittees.

In the congressional elections of 2008, Ric Keller was defeated by Democrat Alan Grayson. He was again a candidate, even though he had signed a statement in advance of his first election victory, to seek no more than four terms of office. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Keller worked as a partner in a law firm in Orlando. He is married for the second time and has four children.

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