Jim Turner (politician)

James "Jim" Turner ( born February 6, 1946 in Fort Lewis, Washington) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2005 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jim Turner attended Crockett High School in Texas and then studied until 1971 at the University of Texas at Austin, among others, Jura. Between 1970 and 1978 he served initially active and then as a member of the reserve in the United States Army. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. From 1981 to 1984 he was a deputy in the Texas House of Representatives. After that he belonged until 1985 to the senior staff of the Governor of Texas. Between 1989 and 1991, Turner was mayor of Crockett; 1991 to 1997 he sat in the Senate of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Turner was in the second electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charlie Wilson on January 3, 1997. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, four legislative sessions. He was at times a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. 2004 Turner waived on another candidacy.

In 2006, Jim Turner was just talking as a candidate for the office of governor of Texas and then as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Since 2005 he works for a large law firm in the capital Washington. He is married and father of two children since 1970.