Jim Courter

James Andrew "Jim" Courter ( born October 14, 1941 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 1991 he represented the State of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jim Courter attended until 1959, the Montclair Academy. Then he studied until 1961 at Colgate University in Hamilton (New York). After a subsequent law studies at the School of Law at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) and his 1966 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. He was a partner in a law firm he co-founded in Hackettstown in 1972. Previously, he was active for the Peace Corps in Venezuela between 1966 and 1968. In the years 1969 and 1970 he worked as a management consultant in the federal capital Washington. He also worked 1970-1971 as a lawyer for the Union County. From 1973 to 1977 he was also deputy prosecutor in Warren County. He also acted as legal representatives of several cities in New Jersey.

Politically, Courter joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1978 he was in the 13th electoral district of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Helen Stevenson Meyner on January 3, 1979. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1991 six legislative periods. Since 1983 he has acted as successor by Matthew John Rinaldo the twelfth district of his state.

In 1989, Jim Courter ran for the governorship of New Jersey, but clearly lost to Democrat James Florio. Between 1991 and 1993 he was chairman of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which dealt with the troop reductions and base closures. He then practiced as a lawyer again.