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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Randy Starkey |
| Address |
, Tennessee , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
December 08, 1949
(75 years)
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| Contributor | Barack O-blame-a |
| Last Modifed | Barack O-blame-a
May 31, 2004 11:01pm |
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| Info | On April 4, 2002, I quit a very good job I loved to campaign full-time for congress. I love my country and I am giving my campaign the maximum effort it needs. I believe a 52-year-old man who quits a good job with a fine company like Graybar Electric Company proves his motivation and concern for his country.
I was born in Lubbock, Texas, on December 8, 1949. My father was a career U.S. Air Force pilot. I am the third of seven children - five boys and two girls. I grew up an "air force gypsy" as our family accompanied Dad to his various military assignments. I graduated from West Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1967. I have lived in Texas, Colorado, Hawaii, California, Montana, Alaska, Washington and Tennessee. In 1969, when I was nineteen, my father retired from the air force and our family moved to Washington State.
I graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from Washington State University in 1972. I was in the top 5% of my class and was honored with a Phi Beta Kappa key. I was also on the WSU debate team. During my senior year at WSU, I served as a legislative intern to the speaker of the Washington state house of representatives.
I attended law school briefly and hated it.
For the majority of my adult life, I worked in the financial field at a variety of savings and loans and credit unions.
I met my wife, Janice Belleville, at WSU and we were married in June of 1971. She has been my rock for more than 31 years and is a Licensed Practical Nurse. Our daughter, Amy, was born in 1972. Amy has since also graduated from WSU and moved to Tennessee. She married her husband Paul in 1997 and now lives and works in Nashville. Our son, Nathan, was born in 1975.
In 1988, tragedy struck our family when son Nathan was fatally injured in an auto accident at age 13. This changed my life and ultimately resulted in our move to Tennessee.
I am proud to witness that my faith in Jesus Christ was the only thing that carried me through those very dark years following my son's death.
I have long been interested in country music songwriting and I have played the piano since the age of 12, so we moved to the Nashville area in 1990 as part of that love of music.
We bought property in Cheatham County in 1993 and built a new home. My wife and I did much of the work on our home. We hung our own sheetrock, put up our own siding, set tile, put down hardwood floor, did finish plumbing, electrical and built the deck.
For the past seven years, I have chosen the path of a workingman and have been employed as a professional delivery truck driver for a large, electrical wholesale distributor in Nashville. I love the job and my customers seem very pleased with my service to them.
My other hobbies and interests include: fishing, beekeeping, private pilot, off-road motorcycles, ham radio operator, photographer, author of articles, and public speaker. Last year, my wife and I began relic hunting with a metal detector. We find it exciting to uncover evidence of Tennessee's colorful history as we spend time outdoors throughout our great state. I am also a sport-shooting enthusiast with special interest in "cowboy" guns of the old west. I am a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
While my son was still alive, I was active as a volunteer adult leader in the Boy Scouts of America. I insisted my son be buried in his Boy Scout uniform. He was a Life Scout and I am certain would have become a fine Eagle Scout had he lived. I was a Scout as a boy and I will always fully support the Boy Scouts of America and consider it the finest organization ever developed for boys.
We have extensive berry vines and fruit trees I tend on our nine acres in Cheatham County.
I have been a member of the Tennessee Farm Bureau for more than seven years.
I have done original historical research, including work at the National Archives, on my great, great grandfather's service in the War Between the States and have written a narrative from that research. I also have done research on my father's World War II service as a pilot with the 90th Bomb Group of the Fifth Air Force and plan to write on that subject as well.
In 1979, my wife and I went to Australia and New Zealand. While there, I took photos and wrote an article, later published in an aviation magazine, about flying in Queensland and out to the Great Barrier Reef in an amphibious light plane.
In the early 80's, I invented a novelty product that I manufactured and sold via the Spencer Gifts chain.
For two years in the 1980's, my partner and I owned and operated a recording studio in Washington State.
I have traced my Starkey family genealogy back eleven generations to the 1600's when my Starkeys first came to the colonies of America.
I started an annual family reunion of my extended Starkey family that's been held the past six years in West Virginia, where my father's people originated.
I have been an active participant in politics my entire adult life, beginning as a university student. I have worked hard, in the trenches,on state legislative campaigns and on several presidential campaigns. I pride myself on staying fully informed on all the public issues of the day.
At the age of 52, and with a very diverse background, I believe I can well represent my neighbors in congress.
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