Trey Radel | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 19th district |
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In office January 3, 2013 – January 27, 2014 |
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Preceded by | Ted Deutch |
Succeeded by | Curt Clawson |
Personal details | |
Born |
Henry Jude Radel III April 20, 1976 Cincinnati, Ohio |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Amy Wegmann Radel |
Children | Henry Jude Radel IV |
Residence | Fort Myers, Florida |
Occupation | Radio host/television personality, reporter, businessman |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Henry Jude "Trey" Radel III (born April 20, 1976) is an author, actor, businessman, American politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. Radel represented Florida's 19th congressional district from January 3, 2013 through January 27, 2014. The Republican had previously worked as a television reporter, anchor, and conservative talk radio host. The district is located in southwest Florida and includes Fort Myers, Naples and Cape Coral.
Radel also works as an actor, appearing in the show StartUp on the Sony owned App Crackle and most recently in Truth is Stranger than Florida on the Investigation Discovery network.
Trey Radel was born in 1976 in Cincinnati, the son of Kathleen (Sollinger) and Henry Jude Radel, Jr. He attended Elder High School. Radel majored in communications and minored in Italian at Loyola University Chicago.
Radel was trained as an actor and a comedian and performed improvisational work at Second City in Chicago. Radel began his working career as a journalist, working as both an anchor and a reporter. He interned for CNN at its headquarters in Atlanta. He then worked for the CBS affiliates in Houston and Chicago. He was a TV and radio talk show host of Daybreak, on WINK-TV & WFSX-FM 92.5 Fox News Radio.