Herbert H. Bateman

Herbert Harvell " Herb" Bateman ( born August 7, 1928 Perquimans County, North Carolina; † 11 September 2000 in Leesburg, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1983 and 2000 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herbert Bateman attended the public schools in Virginia. In 1945, he graduated from Newport News High School. Then he studied until 1949 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. Between 1951 and 1953 he served at the time of the Korean War in the Air Force. After a subsequent law degree from the Georgetown University in Washington DC and his 1956 was admitted to the bar he began to work as a partner in a community practice in this profession. In the meantime, he also worked as a teacher. In the years 1956 and 1957, Bateman also served as Law Clerk to the Federal Appeals Court in the District of Columbia. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1968 and 1983 he was a member of the Senate of Virginia. From 1976 to 1982 he was a delegate to the regional Republican party days of that State.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Bateman was elected in the first district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Paul S. Trible on January 3, 1983. After eight elections he could remain until his death in September 2000 in Congress. There he was at times a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He sat down for output controls the federal government, but at the same time for military expenditure a. He wanted to promote his constituency to Newport News because you lived there by the military and its support industries.

In the 1990s Bateman's health deteriorated more and more. He suffered from lung and prostate cancer and suffered a heart attack. Therefore, he decided not to run in 2000. But he died before the expiration of his last term on 11 September 2000., With his wife Laura, he had a son and a daughter.