William R. Keating

William Richard " Bill" Keating ( born September 6, 1952 in Norwood, Norfolk County, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Keating attended Boston College until 1982. After a subsequent law degree from Suffolk University in Boston, he worked as a lawyer. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1977 and 1984 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1985 to 1998 he was in the state Senate. Between 1998 and 2010 he was a district attorney in Norfolk County.

In the congressional elections of 2010, Keating was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of not more candidates Bill Delahunt on January 3, 2011. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Small Business and in four sub-committees. Keating is married and father of two children; He and his family lived in Quincy.

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