Charles Stenholm

Walter Charles Stenholm ( born October 26, 1938 in Stamford, Jones County, Texas) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 2005 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Stenholm attended the public schools of his home, including the Stamford High School, where he graduated in 1957. He then continued his studies until 1959 at Tarleton State Junior College in Stephenville on. This was followed up in 1962 to study at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. In the following years he worked as a farmer, teacher and private businessman. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1972 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, was nominated for the George McGovern as its presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Stenholm was in the 17th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Omar Truman Burleson on January 3, 1979. After twelve re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, a total 13 legislative periods. He was regarded as a conservative Democrat, and was, among other laws against private gun control. Otherwise, the agriculture and fiscal affairs focus of his deputies were activity. He was a member of the Agriculture Committee. In the 1990s, he was within his party an opponent of President Bill Clinton. It was true in three of four counts in the failed impeachment proceedings against the president with the Republicans for the dismissal of Clinton. Later, he was also an opponent of the financial policies of the administration of President George W. Bush. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

In 2004, Charles Stenholm was not re-elected. Since the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he works as a lobbyist.