Tammy Duckworth

Ladda Tammy Duckworth ( born March 12, 1968 in Bangkok, Thailand) is an American politician. Since 2013, it represents the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tammy Duckworth comes paternal an American military family whose members already served during the American Revolution in the armed forces. Her father was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. They first visited the Singapore American School and the International School Bangkok. In 1985 she graduated from the President William McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then studied until 1989 at the University of Hawaii, among other political sciences. Then she continued her studies until 1992 at the George Washington University in Washington DC and then at Northern Illinois University continues.

Professional Duckworth followed in the footsteps of their father's ancestors. She joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps, where she was trained officer for the U.S. Army. Since 1992 she was a helicopter pilot. This was one of the few ways in which women could also be used in combat. First, she was a member of the Reserve of the Army. Since 1996 she is a member of the National Guard of Illinois. In 2004, she was called to active duty and deployed in Iraq War as a helicopter pilot. On November 12, 2004, she was co-pilot of an insert in which their helicopter was shot. She was seriously injured and lost both legs. Her right arm was severely damaged. She has been awarded numerous medals, including the Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Aviator Badge Senior, and promoted to Major. Today, she can walk again with the help of prosthetic legs.

Then she hit as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 2006, she ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 2006 and 2009 she headed the Veterans Ministry of the State of Illinois. Then she was. Between 2009 and 2011 Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Barack Obama In August 2008 she was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention, and four years later she was delegate to the democratic national convention next.

In the congressional elections of 2012 Tammy Duckworth was selected in the eighth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where it succeeded the Republican Joe Walsh on January 3, 2013, she in the election with 55:45 percent of the vote had struck. She is the first woman with a disability in the U.S. House of Representatives and the first -born in Thailand, member of Congress.