Name Curt Clawson Website House website | Religion Mormonism | |
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Alma mater Purdue UniversityHarvard Business School Role United States Representative Office United States Representative since 2014 Parents Jack Clawson, Cherie Clawson Similar People Bill Posey, Ted Deutch, Jeff Miller Profiles | ||
Congressman curt clawson 1 7 15 sean hannity interview on house leadership vote
Curtis Jay Clawson (born September 28, 1959) is an American politician who was the United States Representative for Florida's 19th congressional district from 2014 to 2017. He is the former chief executive of Hayes Lemmerz, a Michigan-based automobile wheel and brakes supplier.
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- Congressman curt clawson 1 7 15 sean hannity interview on house leadership vote
- congressman curt clawson tea party response to the state of the union 2015
- Education and career
- 2014
- Tenure
- References
congressman curt clawson tea party response to the state of the union 2015
Education and career
Clawson attended Batesville High School in Batesville, Indiana. A high school basketball star, he was recruited by Gene Keady for Purdue University. At Purdue, he was a 2x All-Academic Big Ten selection (1982–83 and 1983–84). He was a team captain for the 1983–84 Big Ten Champions, was a member of 2x NCAA teams (1982–83 and 1983–84) and an NIT Finalist team (1981–82). He graduated in 1984 with a BA in Spanish and a BS from the Krannert School of Management. He was named a "Purdue Old Master" in 2010 and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014
In 1990, he earned an MBA from Harvard University.
Before his election to Congress, Clawson spent a quarter-century as an executive with several industrial firms, working at AlliedSignal, American National Can and Hayes Lemmerz.
2014
Special
Clawson was the Republican Party nominee in a special election to fill the seat being vacated by Trey Radel. and won the election on June 24, 2014. In the April 22, 2014 Republican primary—the real contest in this heavily Republican district—Clawson defeated State Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto and former State Representative Paige Kreegel with 38% of the vote to Benacquisto's 26% and Kreegel's 25%. Clawson was endorsed in the primary by the Tea Party Express. He spent $2 million on advertising and in one of his ads he challenged U.S. President Barack Obama to a game of one on one basketball.
General
Clawson won a full term in November 2014 with 64 percent of the vote.
Tenure
Clawson delivered the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union Address in 2015.
During a House hearing on the July 24, 2014, Clawson mistook Nisha Desai Biswal and Arun M. Kumar, two senior U.S. officials of Indian American descent, for representatives of the Indian government, saying, "I am familiar with your country, I love your country. Anything I can do to make the relationship with India better, I'm willing and enthusiastic about doing so. […] Just as your capital is welcome here to produce good-paying jobs in the U.S., I’d like our capital to be welcome there. I ask cooperation and commitment and priority from your government in so doing. Can I have that?" He apologized for the gaffe the next day. “I made a mistake in speaking before being fully briefed and I apologize. I’m a quick study, but in this case I shot an air ball.” he said.
In May 2016, Clawson announced that he would not seek re-election that year, citing the death of his mother in the summer of 2015 and how it "affected him and his father more deeply than he had thought it would." "With the passing of my mom, it’s a good time to show support for my dad and be close to (him),” Clawson said.