Carl C. Perkins

Carl C. Perkins
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 7th district
In office November 6, 1984 – January 3, 1993
Preceded by	Carl D. Perkins
Succeeded by	District eliminated
Personal details
Born	(1954-08-06) August 6, 1954 Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Davidson College University of Louisville

Carl Christopher "Chris" Perkins (born August 6, 1954), is a U.S. lawyer and politician who was United States Representative from the 7th district of Kentucky from 1984 to 1993. Perkins served as a Democrat.

Biography

Perkins is the son of Carl D. Perkins, who represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1984. Perkins was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Fort Hunt High School, Alexandria, Virginia, in 1972. He earned his B.A. from Davidson College in 1976. In 1978, he earned a J.D. degree from the University of Louisville. He worked for some time as a lawyer in private practice.^[1]

From 1981 to 1984, he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.^[1]

Perkins was elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the 98th and the 99th Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, U.S. Representative Carl Dewey Perkins. Perkins was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (November 6, 1984 – January 3, 1993). He was not a candidate for re-election to Congress in 1992. The seat that he held, Kentucky's 7th district, was eliminated by redistricting and became Kentucky's 5th district and some counties in Kentucky's 4th district.^[1] He did not seek office from the new 5th district, in part due to the House banking scandal.

In 1994, former U.S. representative Chris Perkins agreed to plead guilty on three felony charges in connection with the House banking scandal.^[2] The following year he was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and improperly obtaining bank loans. He was also placed on three years' supervised probation, ordered to perform 250 hours of community service, and told to complete any treatment for alcoholism deemed necessary by his probation officer.^[3]

After his release from prison, Perkins attended Louisville Seminary and became an ordained Presbyterian minister, serving a church in Ezel, Kentucky.^[4]

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