Tyrone Yates

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Tyrone Yates
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 33rd district
In office
2002
Preceded by Samuel Britton
Born December 0, 1954 (1954-00-00) (age 54)
Political party Democratic
Residence Cincinnati, Ohio
Profession attorney at law
Religion Episcopalian

Tyrone K. Yates is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 33rd District since 2002.

A Cincinnati native, Representative Yates is a 1972 graduate of Withrow High School. He is a 1978 graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. degree in History and holds the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toledo College of Law. He has studied further at both the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the Harvard Law School in executive programs. While an undergraduate and graduate student, Yates served on the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees as a Student Representative and was elected to the Governing Board of the University of Toledo College of Law. Yates holds the University of Cincinnati's Jones Prize for Oratorical Excellence. Yates was a member of Cincinnati City Council from 1990 to 1999 and served as Vice-Mayor of Cincinnati for two terms.

Representative Yates is a former Senior Warden of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, UC honorary Sigma Sigma, and is a Life member of the Navy League of the United States, the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (NAACP), and the American Angus (cattle) Association.

Yates was a Delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

Yates is currently writing a book on the Kennedy Administration focusing on the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi in 1962.

Yates serves on the Finance and Appropriations, Ways and Means, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Criminal Justice Committees. He also serves on the Ohio Arts Council, the State Criminal Sentencing Commission, and the Correctional Institutions Inspections Committee. Yates is a former President of the 17 Member Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and former Chairman of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. Yates is the Chairman of the Local Host Committee of the 2008 NAACP National Convention to be held in Cincinnati July 2008.

[edit] See also

Election Results, City Council of Cincinnati, Ohio

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Preceded by
Peter Strauss		 Vice-Mayor of Cincinnati
1993—1997		 Succeeded by
Minette Cooper
Preceded by
Samuel Britton		 Ohio House of Representatives
2002 – present		 Incumbent