Dick Brewbaker
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Dick Brewbaker is a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 member of the Alabama Senate
Alabama Senate
The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal amount of districts across the state, with each district containing at least 127,140 citizens...

 for the 25th district, encompassing Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...

 and Elmore
Elmore, Alabama
Elmore is a town in Elmore County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 199. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Elmore is located at .According to the U.S...

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Biography

Dick Brewbaker attended the Montgomery Academy
Montgomery Academy
The Montgomery Academy is a non-sectarian independent day school located in Montgomery, Alabama. The school comprises two campuses. The Lower School accommodates kindergarten through fourth grade, and is located at 1550 Perry Hill Road. The Upper School campus, for the fifth through twelfth grades,...

. He graduated from Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
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 in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
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. He then taught in a number of schools, including the Montgomery Academy.

He worked as the state director of SCORE 100, an education reform
Education reform
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 initiative. He was appointed by Governor Fob James
Fob James
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 as an education liaison to the Alabama House of Representatives
Alabama House of Representatives
The Alabama House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal amount of districts, with each constituency containing at least 42,380 citizens. There are no term...

 and to the Alabama State Board of Education
Alabama State Board of Education
The Alabama State Board of Education is a nine-member body which authorizes the education policy for the state of Alabama. The governor is the ex officio president of the board. The remaining eight members are elected from single-member districts for four-year terms with no limit on the number of...

.

From 2003 to 2007, he was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives
Alabama House of Representatives
The Alabama House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal amount of districts, with each constituency containing at least 42,380 citizens. There are no term...

 for the 75th district. He now serves in the Alabama Senate. He is also the President and CEO of Brewbacker Motors, a family business started by his grandfather in 1947.

He is married with five children. He attends a Presbyterian church, where he is an elder.
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