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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Tom Young |
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Mobile, Alabama , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 11, 1960
(64 years)
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| Contributor | User 490 |
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| Info | Tom Young, 41, son of GM&O railroad employee Cecil Young and Jessie Moore, was born and raised in Mobile. He attended St. Ignatius Elementary School, and graduated from McGill-Toolen High School and the University of South Alabama with a degree in Accounting. He graduated with honors from the University of Alabama School of Law and holds an MBA from Georgetown University. Tom got his first taste of politics at age 16, when he volunteered to campaign door-to-door for a then little-known Republican governor of California, Ronald Reagan.
Until March 2002, Tom worked as Chief of Staff to Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), who is the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, and a senior member of the Banking Committee. Over the last 12 years, Tom ran Senator Shelby's Washington and Alabama offices. Tom has worked closely with Senator Shelby and other Republican leaders in both the House and Senate drafting legislation and policy to reduce taxes, improve national defense and strengthen the economy. Tom worked on national security issues with the White House, members of Congress and the Pentagon and, from 1986-1988, served as legal counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, on issues ranging from Supreme Court nominations to liability reform.
As Chief of Staff to the senior Senator in the state, Tom has been active helping people throughout Alabama. Last year, Tom Young helped secure more than $1-million in funding for new oyster beds to help clean up Mobile Bay. Tom Young helped Alabama's commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre and Bon Secour stop federal regulations that threatened their livelihood. Tom Young has helped constituents in all of Alabama's 67 counties on issues ranging from small-business loans to military pensions. And Tom Young has helped secure federal funding for South Alabama's ports and waterways, its highways, its hospitals, and its historic places.
Tom Young strongly supports:
-efforts to improve our local economy, including renegotiating trade treaties, such as NAFTA, to be in America's self interest
-legislation to protect the rights of unborn children
-vouchers to improve our schools
-President Bush's plan to build a missile defense shield to protect American lives
-a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget
-abolishment of the death tax and the elimination of the tax on capital-gains
-social-security guarantees for today's seniors and the gradual adoption of tax-free saving accounts for tomorrow's seniors
-restriction of oil imports from foreign countries that do not support our strategic interests and expansion of our own domestic oil supplies
-tough laws and incentives to clean up Mobile Bay and to make sure that its parks and waterways stay clean
-tougher federal penalties for criminals, especially those using guns
-safeguards so that Alabama's hunters and other law-abiding citizens will never lose their rights to bear arms
Tom is married to Allen Beard Young, also of Mobile, and is the proud father of Alexander, age 3.
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