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Lynn Westmoreland (born April 2, 1950), a politician from the U.S. state of Georgia, was elected in 2004 to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican representing the state's 8th Congressional district (map). He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but calls Grantville, Georgia his home. He is married to Joan Westmoreland and has three children and five grandchildren.
Prior to his election to the United States Congress, Westmoreland owned a construction company and worked as a real estate developer. He also served in the Georgia House of Representatives beginning in 1993 and began serving as the House Republican Leader in 2001, until he resigned from that position to pursue his Congressional campaign in late 2003. He continued to serve in the Georgia House until his election to the U.S. House in 2004.
Westmoreland was the top vote-getter in his Republican primary election in 2004, but faced fellow Republican Dylan Glenn in a runoff. Westmoreland received 55.5% of the vote in the runoff, before going on to receive 75.6% of the vote in the general election against Democrat Silvia Delamar.
Westmoreland is a fiscal hawk concerned with taxes and government regulation. During his time as the Republican Leader in the Georgia House, he led the fight against redistricting by the Democratic majority in 2001, and then was instrumental in the re-redistricting that took place in Georgia in 2005 after Republicans won control of the Georgia legislature in the 2004 elections.1
In 2005, Westmoreland recieved criticism for spreading a memo to fellow House members which consisted of auto-industry talking points, verbatim, even using the same font as the auto-industry document. An aid defended him, saying, "such behavior is standard practice." 2
During his first term in the 109th Congress, Westmoreland was appointed to the U.S. House Committee on Small Business, U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, and the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
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| Preceded byMac Collins | U.S. Representative of Georgia's 8th Congressional District 2005- |
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