John Light Napier

John Light Napier ( born May 16, 1947 in Blenheim, Marlboro County, South Carolina) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1983 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Napier attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1969 at Davidson College in North Carolina. This is followed by a continuous until 1972, studied law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia joined. Politically Napier became a member of the Republican Party. In the years after qualifying as a lawyer, he worked as a consultant of several sub-committees of the U.S. Senate. From 1976 to 1978 he was an employee on the staff of longtime Senator Strom Thurmond. He then worked for two years as a private lawyer.

In the congressional elections of 1980, Napier was in the sixth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1981 to succeed the retiring in December 1980 John Jenrette. Since he Democrat Robin Tallon defeated in the elections of 1982, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1983. Between 1983 and 1986 Napier again worked as a lawyer. In 1984 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Dallas, has been nominated to the President Ronald Reagan for a second term. This Napier appointed in 1986 to a federal judgeship on the United States Court of Federal Claims - an office which he held until 1989. In 1992, Napier was an adviser to a congressional investigation committee which dealt with irregularities in the post office of the Congress. He then worked again as a lawyer. Today Napier lives in Pawleys Iceland (South Carolina).