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Old 06-20-2009, 12:35 PM
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Steve, I have to question where you got that statistic from? I went and looked at them all about 6 months ago and the number was closer to 75% were lawyers. Perhaps your number is currently holding an active license to practice and mine was law degree. Not sure, it was a while ago. Where did you get your number?
http://www.abanet.org/yld/chooselaw/trivia.shtml#q8 (see questions 7 & 8)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ew.html?cat=37

http://kiriath-arba.blogspot.com/200...-congress.html

http://framedfathers.blogspot.com/20...an-anyone.html

UPDATE: Of the 13 Members of the House of Representatives from FL, 5 are lawyers (Alcee Hastings, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Robert Wexler, Kathy Castor and Gus Bilirakis. Both FL US Senators (Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez) are lawyers. Several Representatives have received "honorary law degrees" from various institutions.