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Representative Bill Garrard Biography After completing four years of military service with the United States Air Force, this New York native embarked on a 40-year career in Radio. During those years Garrard worked medium market to major market properties in San Francisco and Portland as an announcer, sales manager and then station management specializing in station turn- arounds. He ended his broadcast career in 1996 when he sold the three radio stations that he owned and operated. In 1996 he began his political career by being elected two consecutive terms as an Oregon Klamath County Commissioner. His re-election in 1998 marked the first time a County Commissioner had been re-elected to office in that county in over 105 years. He then was elected to three consecutive terms as a State Representative in the Oregon Legislature. During his second term he received both Republican and Democrat nominations. Garrard has never lost an election. During his tenure as state legislator he carried 61 bills to the floor of the house and all 61 bills passed. In his second term he was named Assistant Majority Leader and Chaired the Environment and Land Use Committee and in his third term is currently involved as Chair of the Land use Committee, Judiciary Committee, Legislative Council Committee and the Environment Committee. Garrard is married to Sharon and has four grown children and nine grandchildren and presently resides in Klamath Falls, Oregon. |
