Joseph Heath Shuler is an American businessman, former NFL quarterback and former U.S. Representative for North Carolinas 11th congressional district from 2007 to 2013. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the Blue Dog Coalition.
Shuler was born in Bryson City, North Carolina, a small town in the Great Smoky Mountains near the Tennessee border. His father was a mail carrier and his mother a homemaker and volunteer with the Swain County Youth Association he has a younger brother, Benjie.
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