Edward Farrell "Ed" Feighan (born October 22, 1947) is a former American politician. He served as a member of the

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, and as a Democratic Party U.S. Representative from 1983 to 1993, serving

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Early life and education

Feighan was born in

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. He graduated in 1965 from St. Edward High School, an all-boys Catholic high school on Cleveland's west side. In 1969, he earned a

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from

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, LA. He attended

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while serving in the legislature and received his

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in 1978.

Political career

Feighan was first elected to public office as a

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from

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States border, Canada–U.S. maritime border ...

, in 1972. He served for six years in the Ohio Legislature until his election as a

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Commissioner, a position he held for four years. In 1977, Feighan ran for

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, but lost a narrow race to

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, who also later became a member of Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the 103rd Congress, presumably due to his involvement in the

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and the specter of a primary fight against fellow incumbent

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due to redistricting.

After politics

Feighan served as a director of ProCentury Corporation, a Westerville-based specialty insurance company, and its insurance subsidiaries from 1993 to 1996. From November 1997 until August 1998, he was a Senior Vice President of

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, a Cleveland-based provider of outsourced business services now known as

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. From 1998 until 2000, Feighan was the president of Avalon National Corporation, a holding company for a workers’ compensation insurance agency. During that span, he was also a Managing Partner of Alliance Financial, Ltd., a merchant banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions from September 1998 until May 2003. In 2000, he once again became director of ProCentury, for which he had been the on-and-off Special Counsel. In October 2003, Feighan became the chairman, president and CEO of ProCentury. However, he resigned on July 31, 2008, when it was sold to Meadowbrook Insurance Group. Since February 2014, Feighan has served as the CEO of Covius, a commercial and residential real estate advisory services company.

Electoral history

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