Doug Bereuter

Douglas Kent " Doug " Bereuter ( born October 6, 1939 in York, York County, Nebraska) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 2004 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and political rise

Doug Bereuter attended St. Paul's Lutheran School in Utica and afterwards, until 1957, Utica High School. Subsequently, he studied until 1961 at the University of Nebraska, before he served in the U.S. Army 1963-1965. After his military service, he continued his education at Harvard University.

Bereuter was a member of the Republican Party. After his studies, he was city planner in the U.S. Ministry of Construction. Between 1967 and 1968 he was head of department at the Ministry of Economic Development in Nebraska. He then headed the Planning Department (Office of Planning and Programming ) of the Government of Nebraska. From 1969 to 1971 he was also a member of the Crime Commission of that State, from 1975 to 1979 he was a member of the Nebraska Legislature to.

Congressman

In the congressional elections of 1978 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Charles Thone on January 3, 1979. After he was confirmed in each case impressively in his office at the next elections, he was able to complete until his resignation on 31 August 2004 almost 13 legislatures in the U.S. Congress. In all the elections he had never less than 58 % of the vote. In Congress, he was at times a member of the Service Committee, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chairman of the Intelligence Committee.

Doug Bereuter was also head of the delegation on a NATO parliamentary assembly, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Initially, he was a supporter of the Iraq war. Shortly before his retirement from the Congress but he described it as an error and pushed the secret war guilt, because they had done a poor educational work. Bereuter, which is considered as a moderate Republican who supported Curt Bromm, the Speaker of the Parliament of Nebraska, as his successor in Congress; However, the party members nominated the more conservative Jeff Fortenberry, who then won the election.