Rob Portman
Robert " Rob" Jones Portman ( born December 19, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) is an American politician of the Republican Party, who was both a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as commercial agent of the United States and Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Since January 2011 he has been Senator for Ohio in the United States Senate.
Biography
After visiting the Cincinnati Country Day School, he studied anthropology at Dartmouth College and earned there in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Anthropology ). A post -graduate studies in law at the University of Michigan, he finished in 1984 with a Juris Doctor ( JD). Already during his studies he was a member of the honorary advisory board of the National Student Leadership Conference and board member of Jobs for America's Graduates. Between 1984 and 1986 he was first a lawyer in the law firm Patton Boggs.
In 1989 he joined the government service as a White House staff. There he served first as Assistant Legal Adviser to U.S. President George Bush and then from 1989 to 1991. Deputy assistant and then director of the Office of Legal Affairs ( Office of Legislative Affairs ) He was elected as a Republican candidate in a special election to succeed the retiring Bill Gradison in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993. After several re- elections he represented there on May 4, 1993 until his resignation on 29 April 2005 the second congressional district of Ohio.
After retiring from Congress, he was appointed on 29 April 2005 by U.S. President George W. Bush as U.S. Trade Representative ( Trade Representative ) in his cabinet. After a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed in 2006 director of the Office of Management and Budget on May 29 and has held this cabinet post until August 3, 2007. He then moved into the private sector.
When choosing for the second U.S. Senate seat for Ohio in November 2010, he was the Republican candidate for the succession of not more candidates Republican incumbent George Voinovich, winning against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Lee Fisher.