Background
Feighan, Edward Farrell was born on October 22, 1947 in Lakewood, Ohio, United States. Son of Francis X. and Rosemary (Ling) Feighan.
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Feighan, Edward Farrell was born on October 22, 1947 in Lakewood, Ohio, United States. Son of Francis X. and Rosemary (Ling) Feighan.
Feighan graduated in 1965 from Saint Edward High School, an all-boys Catholic high school on Cleveland"s west side. He attended Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University while serving in the legislature and received his law degree in 1978.
In 1969, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) from Loyola University in New Orleans, Los Los Angeles
Feighan was first elected to public office as a State Representative from Cleveland, Ohio, in 1972. He served for six years in the Ohio Legislature until his election as a Cuyahoga County Commissioner, a position he held for four years. In 1977, Feighan ran for mayor of the city of Cleveland, but lost a narrow race to Dennis Kucinich, 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 House banking scandal and the specter of a primary fight against incumbent Mary Rose Oakar because of redistricting.
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 Century Business Services, a Cleveland-based provider of outsourced business services now known as CBIZ. From 1998 until 2000, Feighan was the president of Avalon National Corporation, a holding company for a workers’ compensation insurance agency.
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 Chief Executive Officer 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 Chief Executive Officer of Covius, a commercial and residential real estate advisory services company.
He served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and as a Democratic Party United States. Representative from 1983 to 1993, serving Ohio"s 19th congressional district.
Married Nadine Hopwood, April 24, 1976. Children: Lauren, David, Farrell.