Trey Gowdy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Trey Gowdy

American politician

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1964

Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician, Clerk

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Trey Gowdy

  • Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III (born August 22, 1964) is an American television news personality, former politician, and former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S.
  • Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019.
  • His district included much of the Upstate region of South Carolina, including Greenville and Spartanburg.
  • Before his congressional career, Gowdy served as a federal prosecutor in the District of South Carolina from 1994 to 2000 and then as the solicitor (district attorney) for South Carolina's Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Spartanburg and Cherokee counties, from 2000 to 2010.
  • From 2014 to 2016, Gowdy chaired the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi which was partly responsible for discovering the existence of Hillary Clinton's private email server.
  • His investigative committee spent over two and a half years and $7.8 million investigating the events surrounding the 2012 Benghazi attack, ultimately finding no evidence of specific wrong-doing by then-Secretary of State Clinton.
  • Gowdy pressed for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.
  • In addition, Gowdy correctly claimed there were classified emails, however, the CIA did tell the panel on Saturday that it had reviewed 127 emails between Clinton and her close friend and outside adviser, Sidney Blumenthal, and none of it was deemed classified.
  • This was determined to be wrong after the testimony.
  • From 2017, he chaired the House Oversight Committee. On January 31, 2018, Gowdy announced that he would not seek re-election in 2018 and that he intended to pursue a legal career instead of politics.
  • He has since joined the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, and also joined Fox News as a contributor.
  • In October 2019, he announced he was joining President Donald Trump's legal team and because of conflict of interest would no longer serve as a contributor to Fox News.
  • However, Gowdy's proposed move to join the lawyers defending Trump was scuttled a few days later over concerns that he would be acting in violation of anti-lobbying laws.

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