Jack Fields
- January 10, 2024
- Politician
Quick Facts
Full Name | Jack Fields |
Occupation | Politician |
Date Of Birth | Feb 3, 1952(1952-02-03) |
Age | 72 |
Birthplace | Humble |
Country | United States |
Birth City | Humble |
Horoscope | Pisces |
Jack Fields Biography
Name | Jack Fields |
Birthday | Feb 3 |
Birth Year | 1952 |
Place Of Birth | Humble |
Home Town | Humble |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Pisces |
Spouse | Lynn Fields |
Jack Fields is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 3, 1952 in Humble, Humble, United States. Jack Milton Fields Jr. (born February 3, 1952) is a Texas businessman and a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from a Houston-based district.
When the Republican Party assumed majority control of the House of Representatives in the 1994 elections, Fields was elected chairman of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the House Committee on Commerce. In that role, he was one of the principal authors of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
He joined Insperity as a director in January 1997. His total compensation for this role in 2009 was $120,746.
In 1993, Fields joined a field of 24 candidates in a special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Lloyd Bentsen, when Bentsen was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton as the secretary of the treasury. However, Fields failed to win enough votes to advance to a runoff election.
Jack Fields Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Politician |
House | Living in own house. |
Jack Fields is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jack Fields 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Fields was born in Humble, a northern suburb of Houston, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fields Sr. He graduated from Humble High School in his hometown in 1970. Fields earned both Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Baptist- affiliated Baylor University and Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. After being admitted to the Texas bar in 1977, Fields worked as a lawyer in private practice and as a vice president of a family- owned business through 1980.
In 1980, at the age of twenty-eight, Fields was elected to the U.S. House on the coattails of President Ronald Reagan’s electoral victory. He narrowly defeated 8th District incumbent Bob Eckhardt, a seven-term Democrat, by only 4,900 votes to become the first Republican to represent what is now the 8th in 83 years. After the 1980 census, most of the 8th’s more Democratic areas were cut out, and Fields was reelected seven more times without serious difficulty.
Fields did not run for reelection to the 106th Congress in 1996. Instead, he started two companies, the 21st Century Group, Inc., a government relations firm based in Washington, D.C., and Texana Global, Inc., an international trade corporation headquartered in Texas. He has served on various corporate and charitable boards. In 2004, the U.S. Post Office in Kingwood was renamed the “Congressman Jack Fields Post Office” in Fields’ honor.
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Who is Jack Fields Dating?
According to our records, Jack Fields married to Lynn Fields. As of December 1, 2023, Jack Fields’s is not dating anyone.
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Facts & Trivia
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Top Facts about Jack Fields
- Jack Fields is a former U.S. Congressman from Texas.
- He served in the House of Representatives from 1981-1997.
- Fields was a member of the Republican Party.
- He represented Texas’s 8th congressional district.
- During his tenure, he focused on telecommunications policy.
- Fields played a key role in passing the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
- He also served as Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance.
- After leaving Congress, he became a lobbyist for the telecommunications industry.
- Fields has been involved in various philanthropic endeavors since retiring from politics.
- He currently resides in Houston, Texas with his family.