Gowdy, Trey, 1964-

LC control no.	no2015136016
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Gowdy, Trey, 1964- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gowdy, Harold Watson, III, 1964-
Associated country	United States
Associated place	South Carolina
Birth date	1964-08-22
Place of birth	Greenville (S.C.)
Field of activity	Tea Party movement Legislation
Affiliation	Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi, Libya
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Public prosecutors Legislators--United States
Found in	Wikipedia, October 12, 2015 (Trey Gowdy; Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III (born August 22, 1964) is the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district, a lawyer and former prosecutor. He is a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party; assumed office January 3, 2011; born Harold Watson Gowdy III, Greenville, South Carolina; before his election to Congress, Gowdy was the solicitor (district attorney) for the state's Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Spartanburg and Cherokee counties. From 1994 to 2000, he was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina; In February 2000, he left the United States Attorney's Office to run for 7th Circuit Solicitor. He defeated incumbent Solicitor Holman Gossett in the Republican primary. He ran unopposed in the general election. He was reelected in 2004 and 2008) Congressman Trey Gowdy website, October 12, 2015: home page (Trey Gowdy) about (In May of 2014, Representative Gowdy was named as the Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi; graduated from Baylor University in 1986 with a degree in history, and the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1989) <https://gowdy.house.gov/>
Associated language	eng