Richard L. Hanna

Richard L. Hanna ( born January 25, 1951 in Utica, New York) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Hanna visited the Whitesboro High School in Marcy. Then he studied until 1976 at Reed College in Portland (Oregon ), the subjects Economics and Political Science. Then he returned to the State of New York, where he worked in the construction industry. He founded his own construction company Hanna Construction and applied at the time of his election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a millionaire. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In 2008, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Hanna was but then in the 24th Election District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of him previously defeated Democrat Mike Arcuri on January 3, 2011. He is a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Small Business, and in five sub-committees. Within the party he belongs to both the conservative Republican Study Committee as well as the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership; overall he is counted to the more moderate wing of his group. In the congressional elections in 2012, he sat down with 61:39 percent of the vote against the Democrats by Dan Lamb. Following a restructuring of constituencies he will continue to represent the 22th district of his state.

Richard Hanna is married and has two children; the family lives privately in Barneveld.