Garret Graves

representative

Republican Party

Garret Graves, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on January 31, 1972; graduated from Catholic High School, Baton Rouge, La., 1990; attended the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, La., and American University, Washington, D.C.; staff, United States Senator John Breaux of Louisiana; staff, United States Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana; staff, United States Senator David Vitter of Louisiana; staff, United States Senate Committee on Commerce; staff, United States Senate Committee on Science and Transportation; staff, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce; appointed to National Resource Damage Assessment, Gulf Coast; chairman, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana; vice chairman of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, United States Environmental Protection Agency; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2015-present).