Jim Chapman (congressman)

James Louis "Jim" Chapman ( born March 8, 1945 in Washington DC) is an American politician. Between 1985 and 1997 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jim Chapman visited until 1963, the Sulphur Springs High School in Texas and then studied until 1968 at the University of Texas at Austin. After a subsequent law degree from the Law School of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and his 1970 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. Between 1976 and 1985 he was a prosecutor in the eighth judicial district of Texas. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

Following the resignation of Mr Sam B. Hall Chapman was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the first seat of Texas, where he took up his new mandate on August 3, 1985. After five elections he could remain until January 3, 1997 at the Congress. He was at times a member of the Appropriations Committee, the Committee on Science and Astronautics, the Committee on Public Works and Transportation and the Small Business Committee. In 1996 he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate.

Since the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Jim Chapman works as a lawyer in the offices in Washington and Austin, a Houston-based law firm.