James W. Grant

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name= James W. Grant

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state= Florida
district= 2nd
party= Democrat Republican
term_start=1987
term_end=1991
preceded=Don Fuqua
succeeded=Douglas Peterson
date of birth=1943
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date of death=
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current occupation=Banking

James William Grant (born 1943) (also called Bill Grant), is an American banker and politician from Madison, Florida. He is a graduate of Florida State University and attended the University of Florida for graduate studies. He represented ushr|Florida|2| in the U. S. Congress from 1987 to 1991. After being elected as a Democrat from the Tallahassee-based 2nd District to succeed 12-term Democrat Don Fuqua, he switched parties to become a Republican in 1989. He was defeated for reelection in U.S. House election, 1990 by Douglas Peterson, and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1992, losing to incumbent Bob Graham.

Grant is a fifth generation Floridian whose family lived in North Florida before statehood. He is a former Member of the Florida State Senate and the United States Congress and his party’s nominee to the U.S. Senate.

Prior to beginning his political career, he organized and ran several North Florida commercial banks and was twice elected president of the Florida Bankers Association.

After leaving politics, he organized and now serves as CEO of MK Meridian, Inc., an international conflict resolution, trade, and diplomatic advisory firm.

In that capacity, he has mediated numerous sovereign and commercial conflicts across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

He helped organize the United Africa Association, a 13-nation effort for promoting pan-African self-help, free-enterprise capitalism, and democracy.

In 1997, with the assistance of the government of Egypt, he negotiated the end to the first Somali civil war and authored a draft constitutional government for that nation.

He has been the senior advisor to two sovereign foreign governments and twice served as Special United States Congressional Envoy to international trouble spots.

He has also served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Chemical, LLC, a multi-faceted chemical production facility in the former Soviet country of Ukraine, with 11,000 employees and a worldwide market.

Among his many and varied civic endeavors, he is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Florida State University Foundation; President of the Florida 4-H Foundation; and a Life Board Member of the Dick Houser Center for Childhood Services.

Grant is married the former Janet Krawiec and has four children; John Alan, Carter Richmond, Madison Kathleen, and Kinsey Regan.

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