Rick W. Allen

Rick W. Allen


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 12th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2015
Preceded by	John Barrow
Personal details
Born	(1951-11-07) November 7, 1951 Augusta, Georgia, United States
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Residence	Augusta, Georgia
Alma mater	Auburn University
Occupation	Construction company owner
Religion	Methodist^[1]
Website	Official website

Richard Wayne Allen (born November 7, 1951) is an American politician who serves Georgia's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives elections, 2014. He took office on January 3, 2015.

Career

Allen attended Auburn University and earned a degree in building construction. He is the founder of R.W. Allen and Associates, a construction company headquartered in Augusta.^[2]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2012

Allen ran in the Republican primary for the 12th district against three other candidates. Allen advanced to the runoff, but lost to State Representative Lee Anderson, 49.7% to 50.3%.^[3] Anderson went on to lose the general election to incumbent John Barrow.

2014

Allen ran again in 2012, this time making it to the general election. Allen defeated Barrow in the November election, in a result considered an upset even though the 12th had been made significantly more Republican in redistricting.^[4]^[5]

Committee assignments

Personal life

Allen lives in Augusta, Georgia. A Methodist, he is married to Robin Allen and has four children.

References

↑ "Rick Allen". House.gov. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
↑ "Project Vote Smart – The Voter's Self Defense System". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
↑ Vote recount certifies Lee Anderson as winner of GOP runoff for U.S. District 12 seat
↑ "Nunn, Carter, and Barrow defeated; Georgia’s Democratic revolution is stillborn – Political Insider blog". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
↑ "Rick Allen upsets John Barrow for Georgia congressional seat". Ajc.com. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

External links

Congressman Rick Allen official U.S. House site
Rick Allen for Congress
Appearances on C-SPAN

Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Profile at Project Vote Smart

Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission

Legislation sponsored at The Library of Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by John Barrow	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 12th congressional district 2015–present	Incumbent
United States order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by Pete Aguilar D-California	*United States Representatives by seniority* 379th	Succeeded by Brad Ashford D-Nebraska

Georgia's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators	Johnny Isakson (R) David Perdue (R)

Representatives (ordered by district)	Buddy Carter (R) Sanford Bishop (D) Lynn Westmoreland (R) Hank Johnson (D) John Lewis (D) Tom Price (R) Rob Woodall (R) Austin Scott (R) Doug Collins (R) Jody Hice (R) Barry Loudermilk (R) Rick Allen (R) David Scott (D) Tom Graves (R)

Other states' delegations	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Non‑voting: American Samoa District of Columbia Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands

Current Members of the United States House of Representatives

Presiding Officer: Speaker Paul Ryan

Majority party

Current Republican Party conference

Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip: Steve Scalise

Other members: Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Babin Barletta Barr Barton Benishek Bilirakis M Bishop R Bishop Black Blackburn Blum Bost Boustany Brady Brat Bridenstine M Brooks S Brooks Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burgess Byrne Calvert B Carter J Carter Chabot Chaffetz Clawson Coffman Cole C Collins D Collins Comstock Conaway Cook Costello Cramer Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Curbelo Davis Denham Dent DeSantis DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dold Donovan Duffy JD Duncan JJ Duncan Ellmers Emmer Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks Frelinghuysen Gibbs Gibson Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger G Graves S Graves T Graves Griffith Grothman Guinta Guthrie Hanna Hardy Harper Harris Hartzler Heck Hensarling Herrera Beutler Hice Hill Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga Hultgren Hunter Hurd Hurt Issa E Jenkins L Jenkins B Johnson S Johnson Jolly Jones Jordan Joyce Katko M Kelly T Kelly P King S King Kinzinger Kline Knight Labrador LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Latta LoBiondo Long Loudermilk Love Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis MacArthur Marchant Marino Massie McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley McMorris Rodgers McSally Meadows Meehan Messer Mica C Miller J Miller Moolenaar Mooney Mullin Mulvaney Murphy Neugebauer Newhouse Noem Nugent Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Paulsen Pearce Perry Pittenger Pitts Poe Poliquin Pompeo Posey Price Ratcliffe Reed Reichert Renacci Ribble Rice Rigell Roby Roe H Rogers M Rogers Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rothfus Rouzer Royce Russell Salmon Sanford Schweikert Scott Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson A Smith C Smith J Smith L Smith Stefanik Stewart Stivers Stutzman Thompson Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Trott Turner Upton Valadao Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Walters Weber Webster Wenstrup Westerman Westmoreland Whitfield Williams Wilson Wittman Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho David Young Don Young T Young Zeldin Zinke

Delegate: Radewagen

Minority party

Current Democratic Party caucus

Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi, Minority Whip: Steny Hoyer, Assistant Minority Leader: Jim Clyburn

Other members: Adams Aguilar Ashford Bass Beatty Becerra Bera Beyer Bishop Blumenauer Bonamici Boyle Brady Brown Brownley Bustos Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardenas Carney Carson Cartwright Castor Castro Chu Cicilline Clark Clarke Clay Cleaver Cohen Connolly Conyers Cooper Costa Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings D Davis S Davis DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard Gallego Garamendi Graham Grayson A Green G Green Grijalva Grisham Gutiérrez Hahn Hastings Heck Higgins Himes Hinojosa Honda Huffman Israel Jeffries E Johnson H Johnson Kaptur Keating Kelly Kennedy Kildee Kilmer Kind Kirkpatrick Kuster Langevin Larsen Larson Lawrence B Lee S Lee Levin Lewis Lieu Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Luján Lynch C Maloney S Maloney Matsui McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Moulton Murphy Nadler Napolitano Neal Nolan Norcross O'Rourke Pallone Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pingree Pocan Polis Price Quigley Rangel Rice Richmond Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan Linda Sánchez Loretta Sánchez Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader D Scott R Scott Serrano Sewell Sherman Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith Speier Swalwell Takai Takano B Thompson M Thompson Titus Tonko Torres Tsongas Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wilson Yarmuth

Delegates: Bordallo Norton Pierluisi Plaskett Sablan

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