A Representative from Florida; born in Key West, Monroe County, Fla., April 5, 1957; attended University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1978; B.A., Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., 1979; M.P.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1996; real estate broker; Florida state senate, 1994-1998; Florida secretary of state, 1999-2002; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Eighth Congress and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2003-January 3, 2007); not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuccessful candidate to the United States Senate in 2006.