Don Bonker

Don Leroy Bonker ( born March 7, 1937 in Denver, Colorado) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1989 he represented the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Don Bonker attended the public schools in Westminster. Then he studied until 1962 at Clark College in Vancouver (Washington) and then to 1964 at Lewis & Clark College in Portland (Oregon ). In addition, he was still studying at the American University in the capital Washington. In the meantime, he was from 1955 to 1959 member of the U.S. Coast Guard. Between 1966 and 1974 Bonker worked as an auditor in Clark County. In the years 1964 and 1965 he was on the staff of U.S. Senator Maurine Brown Neuberger of Oregon.

Bonker was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1972, he competed unsuccessfully for the office of Secretary of State of Washington. In the years 1968 and 1970 he was a delegate to the regional democratic party days of that State. In the congressional elections of 1974, he was the third election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Julia Butler Hansen on January 3, 1975. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1989 seven legislative sessions. There he was at times a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

1988 renounced Don Bonker a renewed candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he competed in this year as well as again in 1992 unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Today Bonker CEO of International Management and Development Institute is. He is also on the board of the Foundation for Russian-American business relations.