Mark Souder

Mark Edward Souder ( born July 18, 1950 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2010 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Souder attended until 1968 the Leo High School and then studied until 1972 at Indiana University in Fort Wayne. He finished his education in 1974 with a degree at the University of Notre Dame. Between 1983 and 1993 he was several times a member of the senior staff of Congressman and later U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Germany, Dan Coats. In the years 1985 to 1988, he worked for the Congress Select Committee on Children, Youth and Family as a staff director. He also worked as a manager for a furniture company, and became the owner of the company Souder 's General Store.

Politically Souder was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1994 he was in the fourth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jill Long Thompson on January 3, 1995. After seven elections he could remain until his resignation on 21 May 2010 in Congress. Since 2003 he represented there as a successor of Timothy J. Roemer the third district of his state; last he was confirmed in November 2009 with a vote share of 55 percent.

Souder was a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in a total of six subcommittees. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the war in Iraq and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Souders resignation was the result of an affair with a married co-worker of his staff; he is married and the father of three children since 1974. His mandate was made after a special election to Marlin Stutzman.