Charlie Stuart
Charlie Stuart (born 5 November 1951) is the Democratic nominee for United States Congress from Florida's 8th Congressional District.
Stuart was born and raised in Orange County, Florida in a prominent Orlando family. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1973 with a B.S. in Business Administration (Marketing). Stuart worked as President of several companies during the 1970s and 1980s, including George Stuart, Inc. and Eagle Office Supply, Inc. He has since worked as a consultant, speaker, author, and adjunct professor at the Hamilton Holt School of Rollins College.
Stuart has been involved in the community as a Bible study teacher at a Baptist church, President of the YMCA, Little league umpire, board member of the United Way of Central Florida and the Orlando Regional Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors, and President of the Central Florida Crime Commission.
Stuart has been married to his wife, Barbara, for 32 years. The couple have three children.
2006 campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives
Stuart is currently running against Republican incumbent, Ric Keller. Stuart defeated attorney Alan Grayson and Orange County Commissioner Homer Hartage in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, September 5, 2006.
Incumbent Keller is known in Congress for his Cheeseburger Bill that passed without his vote because of his hospitalization for a cardiac arrhythmia in 2005. Keller has been reelected with little trouble in the past. This year he FACES a respectable opponent in Stuart, a Central Florida native and member of a prominent Orlando family who was touted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a top longshot candidate. Stuart has received the backing of local figures such as Congressman Allen Boyd, ex-Orlando mayors Glenda Hood and Bill Frederick and present Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer, as well as national ones such as former Virginia Governor Mark Warner.
External links
- Orlando Sentinel endorses Charlie Stuart over Keller in District 8
- Stuart Beats Keller in Chamber of Commerce poll
- Charlie Stuart for Congress
- CQ Politics interview with Charlie Stuart
- CQ Politics article on Stuart's endorsement from Bob Graham
See also
- United States House elections, 2006