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Jim Marshall (U.s. Politician)James Creel Marshall (born March 31 1948 in Ithaca, New York), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 3rd District of Georgia (map). Marshall graduated from high school in Mobile, Alabama and entered Princeton University in 1966. In 1968 Marshall left college to volunteer for the United States Army; as an Airborne Ranger reconnaissance platoon sergeant, he earned a Purple Heart in Vietnam. He returned to Princeton in 1970 and graduated in 1972. Marshall later earned his law degree from Boston University and was a lawyer, a faculty member at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and the mayor of Macon before entering the House. Marshall first ran for Congress in 2000 as the Democratic candidate for the 8th District, giving now-Senator Saxby Chambliss his closest contest ever. The Georgia state legislature renumbered the 8th as the 3rd after the 2000 Census, making it much more Democratic. Despite this, he barely defeated Republican Calder Clay due to the Republican wave that swept through Georgia, becoming the first white Democrat to represent Georgia in the House since Nathan Deal switched parties in 1995. He handily defeated Clay in a 2004 rematch. Marshall is a fairly conservative Democrat by national standards. He opposes abortion, gun control and flag-burning. External link Marshall, Jim Marshall, Jim
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