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Richard Mauze Burr (born November 30, 1955) is the senior United States Senator from North Carolina having served since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, Burr represented North Carolina's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005. Prior to his political career, he worked for seventeen years in private business with Carswell Distributing.〔http://www.burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorBurr.Biography〕 ==Background== Burr was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, the son of Martha (née Gillum) and Rev. David Horace White Burr, a minister.〔(1 )〕 He graduated from Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, N.C. in 1974 and earned a B.A. in Communications〔http://www.usnews.com/news/campaign-2008/articles/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-richard-burr US News and World Report Danielle Burton May 22, 2008〕 from Wake Forest University in 1978.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/21787/richard-burr#.VGPAJih22XQ )〕 Burr was on the football team at both Reynolds High School and Wake Forest. Burr lettered for the Demon Deacons during the 1974 and 1975 seasons; however, the team went winless in ACC play during his tenure.〔2010 Wake Forest University Football Media Guide, p. 167.〕 He is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Prior to running for Congress, Burr worked for 17 years as a sales manager for Carswell Distributing Company, a distributor of lawn equipment. Burr is currently a board member of Brenner Children's Hospital, as well as of the group Idealliance—a group of local, academic, and government officials working to expand North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad Research Park.〔(U.S. Senate: Senators Home > Senator Richard Burr )〕 Burr is also a board member of the West Point Board of Visitors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorBurr.Biography )〕 Burr has been married to Brooke Fauth Burr, a real estate agent, since 1984, and the couple has two sons, Tyler and William.〔 Burr's father, a minister, said that Burr is a 12th cousin of Aaron Burr, the former Vice-President, Senator, lawyer, and Continental Army officer known most for defeating Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. He is the first Burr in the Senate—and only the second person with his last name to win election to Congress (the first being the presumably unrelated Albert G. Burr)—since Aaron.〔(Durham Herald-Sun )〕〔(Burr is former veep's 12th cousin | newsobserver.com projects )〕 Sen. Burr himself has stated that there are no longer any direct descendants of Aaron Burr, and that he descends from Aaron's brother. However, it is more likely that Senator Burr is descended from the brother of Aaron's father as biographies of Aaron Burr state that he had only an older sister, that his parents died young and they were raised by his father's brother.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Br-Ca/Burr-Aaron.html )〕〔Aaron Burr〕 When queried, Burr states that he has tempered pride of the association: "I am () ... though history has proved to shine a different light on him." Burr's car, a 1974 Volkswagen Thing, is "something of a local celebrity" on Capitol Hill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Burr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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