Ron Klein

Ronald "Ron" Klein ( * July 10, 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American politician. Between 2007 and 2011 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ron Klein attended until 1975, the Cleveland Heights High School and then studied until 1979 at the Ohio State University in Columbus. After a subsequent study of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and its made ​​in 1982 admitted to the bar he began in Boca Raton to work in his new profession. There he became a director in a law firm. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1992 and 1996 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Florida; 1996 to 2006 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 2006, Klein was the 22nd electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of E. Clay Shaw on January 3, 2007. After a re-election in 2008, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2011, two legislative sessions. In the congressional elections in 2010 he was defeated by Republican Allen West, he had two years earlier been defeated yet, with 46:54 percent of the vote. Klein was a member of the Finance Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee and in five sub-committees.

Ron Klein is married to Dori Dragin. Private family lives in Boca Raton.