ELECTION DAY: NOVEMBER 05, 2002

JACK GARGAN

CANDIDATE FOR FL 5 US CONGRESS

Brief Biography

For more see Wikipedia or web search "Jack Gargan." Or "Jack Gargan, THRO."

> Born John J. Gargan, October 20, 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

> 3/32 Father died when I was 17 months old. Self-supporting since age 14

> 6/48 Graduated from Prospect Park H.S. (PA)

> 6/52 Honorable discharge from US Navy

> 6/54 Honorable discharge from US Army

> 3/57 Graduated from Birmingham-southern College (AL) with degree in Business Administration. Worked way through while being sole support of wife and two children. Two more children born subsequent to college years.

> 1957 Selected as "Outstanding ÐKA of Year". Moved to Florida.

> 1970-71 Attended Stetson University College of Law.

> Career as insurance agent and financial consultant since 1957. Avocation as professional handwriting analyst since 1962. Seventeen years as adjunct professor of Finance at local college. Retired in 1986.

> 1984 Chosen one of "Outstanding Finance Instructors in USA" by Chicago Board of Trade.

> 1984 Founder and Past President and CEO of The International Association of Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC). This organization is now considered the world's premier professional association for the financial planning industry.

> 3/90 Founder of T.H.R.O., Inc. (Throw the Hypocritical Rascals Out!), a national non-profit corporation dedicated to term limits and elimination of deficit spending.

> 9/90 TIME magazine "Hero of the Week"

> 6/91 Originator and driving force to draft Ross Perot for president

> 5/92 Became the first Irish Chieftain inaugurated in Ireland since 1648.

> 8/92 Along with fourteen others, was one of the original founding members of the national Independence Party (name changed to the Reform Party in most states, except New York, then back to Independence when Reform Party imploded).

> 1994 Candidate for Governor of Florida. With less than $80,000 (most of the others spent millions), only incumbent Governor Lawton Chiles and Jeb Bush got more votes in a field of nine candidates

> 1998 Reform Party candidate for Florida's Fifth Congressional District. Became only candidate ever to meet Florida's "impossible" 3% petition requirements. With only a $27,000 war chest received the highest number of votes (74,127) of any third party congressional challenger in the USA since 1948

> 7/99 Elected National Chairman of the Reform Party, USA (Top of Page)

Miscellaneous: Low-profile/high-energy pragmatic idealist. Six-gallon blood donor. Author of five books on financial management, including "THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ESTATE PLANNING", a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1978. Direct descendent of Niall of the Nine Hostages, High King of Ireland from 377 to 404 A.D. Elected in 1991 as world-wide Clan Chieftain of the Geoghegan Clan (grandfather "Americanized" our name to Gargan).

Internationally recognized lecturer on financial planning and handwriting analysis.

Current or past listing in Marquis' "Who's Who in Finance and Industry"; "Who's Who in America"; "Who's Who in the World"; "Strathmere's Who's Who"; and "International Men of Achievement".

Hero: Thomas Jefferson.

Enjoys photography, reading, travel, stone masonry and yard work. Frequently referred to as "the father of the modern reform movement" and the "father of the term limits movement." (Top of Page)

I Pledge to be Self Term-Limited to Three Terms in Office: Six Years

JACK GARGAN, jack@cs2pr.us (active Email)     

To preserve fragile freedom and our democratic republic we must elect new people to public office, as often as possible, and with as many newly elected private citizens as possible.

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