Van Hilleary

William Vanderpool " Van " Hilleary ( born June 20, 1959 in Dayton, Tennessee) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2003 he represented the state of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Van Hilleary first attended the Rhea County High School and then studied until 1981 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Between 1982 and 1984 he served in the U.S. Air Force, the Reserve he belongs to this day. After studying law and its made ​​in 1990 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Hilleary joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1994 he was in the fourth electoral district of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jim Cooper on January 3, 1995. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2003, four legislative sessions.

In 2002 he gave up another candidacy. State Meanwhile, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Tennessee: He defeated Democrat Phil Bredesen. In 2006, he ran for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate, finished second in the primary but only the third place behind Ed Bryant and the victorious Bob Corker. Since then, Van Hilleary works as a consultant in the federal capital Washington. He is married and lives with his wife Meredith privately in Murfreesboro.