John Wiley Bryant

John Wiley Bryant ( born February 22, 1947 in Lake Jackson, Texas) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1997 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Bryant attended the public schools of his home including Brazoport High School. Then he studied until 1969 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1972 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began working in Dallas in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1972 he was an advisor to a committee of the Senate of Texas. Between 1974 and 1982 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas. In July 1976, Bryant delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, on the Jimmy Carter was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Bryant became the fifth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jim Mattox on January 3, 1983. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1997 seven legislative sessions. In 1988 he was one of the commissioners for carrying out an impeachment against the federal judge Alcee Hastings of Florida.

In 1996, John Bryant gave up another candidacy. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Then he has pursued to date, no further important political office.