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During a December 5, 2012 ceremony in the nation’s capital, the portrait of U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-FL) was unveiled in the hearing room of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Congressional panel he has chaired for the past two years.
Mica became the Committee’s chairman to begin the 112th Congress in 2011. In the four years prior to that, when Democrats controlled the House of Representatives in the 110th and 111th Congresses, Mica served as the Committee’s top Republican.
Chairman Mica is the 15th Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, dating back to 1947 when it was first known as the Public Works Committee. The Public Works Committee was created by the merger of multiple previously existing committees.
Mica’s portrait will be only the 6th portrait of a committee chairman from Florida in the House’s collection. Previous Florida House chairmen with portraits include Representatives Claude Pepper, James Andrew Haley, Dante Fascell, Don Fuqua, and Bill Young.
The United States Capitol Historical Society sponsored the portrait; no public funds were used.
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