Alan Steelman

Alan Watson Steelman ( born March 15, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American politician. Between 1973 and 1977 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alan Steelman attended the common schools and then studied until 1964 at Baylor University in Waco. In 1971 he graduated from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas; In 1972 he was a visiting student at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics, part of Harvard University. After that, he worked for the company Alexander Proud Food PLC. Ferber, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. From 1969 to 1972 he was part of a team of advisers of President Richard Nixon, who dealt with the possibilities of smaller businesses ( Council on Minority Business Enterprise). In the years 1968 and 1972, Steelman was a delegate to the respective regional Republican party days in Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1972, Steelman was in the fifth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he became the successor of Earle Cabell on January 3, 1973. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1977 two legislative sessions. These were overshadowed in the years 1973 and 1974 of the Watergate affair. In 1977, Alan Steelman gave up another candidacy. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After he retired from politics. Today, he manages the investment company Steelman Stonebridge, Inc. He is married and has five children and two stepchildren.