Darlene Hooley

Darlene Kay Olson Hooley ( born April 4, 1939 in Williston, Williams County, North Dakota) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2009, she represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

At the age of eight years came Darlene Olson, as her maiden name, with her ​​parents in Salem, Oregon, where she attended Salem Academy. She then moved to Pasadena Nazarene College in California. Upon her return she studied until 1961 at the University of Oregon. Between 1961 and 1975 she worked as a teacher. In 1965 she married the teacher John Hooley, with which they should have two children; They were divorced in 1997.

Hooley was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1977 and 1980 she was a member of the city council of West Linn and 1980 to 1986 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Oregon. Then they belonged between 1986 and 1996 at the county council in Clackamas County.

1996 Darlene Hooley was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. There it began on 3 January 1997 in the footsteps of Jim Bunn, whom she had beaten in the elections. After several re- elections, they could exercise their mandate in Congress until January 3, 2009. Your election results were in each case between 51% and 57% of the vote. In 2002, she spoke out against the Iraq war. She was a member of the Science and Technology Committee, the Budget Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In 2008 she gave up for reelection. Today Darlene Hooley lives in West Linn.