Jim Slattery

James Charles "Jim" Slattery (* August 4, 1948 in Good Intent, Atchison County, Kansas) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1995 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jim Slattery attended the public schools in Atchison. Thereafter he attended until 1969 the Netherlands School of International Business and Economics. In 1970 he graduated from the Washburne University in Topeka. After studying law at the same university, he was admitted to the bar in 1975. Then he started in Topeka to work in his new profession.

Politically Slattery was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1972 and 1978 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kansas. In 1982 he became the second district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1983 to succeed James Edmund Jeffries. After he was confirmed in each case in the following five congressional elections, he was able to complete a total of six legislative periods in Congress until January 3, 1995. At times he was a member of the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Veterans Affairs and the bank control. He also sat in the Budget Committee.

In 1994 he abandoned a bid again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of Kansas. With 35.9 percent of the vote, he clearly lost to Republican Bill Graves. Then he moved to Virginia and became a partner in a Washington-based law firm. In 2008, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. He came to 36.4 percent of the vote and was therefore a chance against the Republican incumbent Pat Roberts.