Alan Grayson

Politician

Alan Grayson was born in The Bronx, New York, United States on March 13th, 1958 and is the Politician. At the age of 66, Alan Grayson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 13, 1958
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, United States
Age
66 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$17 Million
Profession
Assistant United States Attorney, Businessperson, Lawyer, Politician
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Education
Harvard University (BA, MPP, JD)
Alan Grayson Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Lolita Grayson, ​ ​(m. 1990; div. 2015)​, Dena Minning ​(m. 2016)​
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5
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Alan Grayson Life

Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958) is an American politician who was the United States Representative for Florida's 9th congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party.

He previously served as Representative for Florida's 8th congressional district from 2009 to 2011.

He was defeated for re-election in 2010 by Republican Daniel Webster and was then elected in 2012 for a second, non-consecutive term in the House of Representatives, defeating Republican Todd Long.

In 2016, Grayson decided not to run for re-election to his House seat in order to run for the Senate from Florida in the 2016 election.

He was defeated 59%–18% in the Democratic primary by fellow Representative Patrick Murphy, who went on to lose the general election to incumbent Marco Rubio.

In 2018, Grayson entered the race for Florida's 9th Congressional District.

He was defeated in the Democratic primary by Darren Soto, 66%–34%.

Early life and education

Grayson was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, to Dorothy Ann (née Sabin) and Daniel Franklin Grayson. He grew up in Adee Towers, a building financed by the Mitchell–Lama Housing Program, and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1975, and he also attended the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program. Grayson worked his way through Harvard College as a janitor and nightwatchman, and also features reporter for Boston Phoenix. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Special Concentration in Urban Studies in 1978. After working two years as an economist, he returned to Harvard for graduate studies. In 1983, he earned a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and a M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also completed all coursework and the comprehensive examination for a Ph.D. in government.

Grayson wrote his master's thesis on gerontology. In 1986, he helped found the non-profit Alliance for Aging Research in Washington, D.C. and served as an officer of the organization for more than twenty years.

Personal life

Grayson was ranked as the 11th-wealthiest member of Congress in 2010, based on financial disclosure forms with a net worth of $31.41 million, and a pending claim against the now-defunct Derivium Capital for at least $25 million, according to Roll Call. Grayson disclosed that his attorney fees and costs for the war contractor case had exceeded $4 million.

Grayson was married to a woman he met in the early 1980s at a party in Boulder, Colorado. Grayson remarried in 1990 to Lolita Grayson. While pursuing the whistleblower cases, Grayson worked from a home office in Orlando, where he lived with his second wife, Lolita Grayson, and their five children. The couple separated in March 2014, and Alan Grayson asked a court in Orlando to annul the marriage a year later. In April 2015 the Graysons agreed to settle the dispute and annul their 25-year marriage. Lolita Grayson accused Alan Grayson of domestic abuse that lasted over the decades of their marriage; Alan Grayson denied the charges.

On May 31, 2016, Alan Grayson married his third wife, Dr. Dena Minning. In 2016, Minning ran for the US House seat Grayson was vacating to pursue his Senate run. She was defeated in the Democratic primary.

In December 2019, Grayson released a book titled High Crimes: The Impeachment of Donald Trump.

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Alan Grayson Career

Legal career

Grayson served as a law clerk in 1983 and as a deputy clerk at the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals. Circuit from 1984 to 1985, where he worked with two judges who later joined the US Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. He was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson for five years, where he concentrated on contract law.

He formed Grayson & Kubli, a law firm that concentrated on government contract law in 1991. He was a frequent speaker on the subject and a lecturer at the George Washington University government contracts program. In the 2000s, he served as a plaintiffs' prosecutor specialising in whistleblower fraud cases directed at Iraq War contractors. On two Iraqi contracts with the Coalition Provisional Authority, one contractor, Custer Battles, was found guilty of making fraudulent claims and presenting fraudulent invoices. Grayson filed a lawsuit under the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions on behalf of his clients. The jury's decision was more than $13 million, which was upheld on appeal in April 2009. Grayson's first national interest was the Iraq war contractor fraud lawsuit. Grayson was described as "waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq" and as a "fierce critic of the war in Iraq" whose car had bumper stickers that read "Bush lied, people died," according to a Wall Street Journal reporter in 2006.

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