Norman F. Lent

Norman Frederick Lent ( born March 23, 1931 in Oceanside, New York, † June 11, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1971 and 1993 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Norman Frederick Lent was born at the time of the Great Depression in Oceanside. He graduated in 1948 at the Malverne High School. After that he went to the Hofstra College in Hempstead, he left with a Bachelor of Arts 1952. Because the Korean War, he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve, where he served 1952-1954. During this time he held the rank of lieutenant. Then he went to the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, he with a Bachelor of Laws left again in 1957. His admission to the bar he was in the same year and commenced practice in Lynbrook. Between 1960 and 1962 he served as Associate Justice Police in East Rockaway and worked as a Confidential Law Secretary ( Law Clerk ) of New York Supreme Court Jursitce Thomas P. Farley.

Lent sat 1962-1970 in the Senate from New York. He was 1962-1984 Member of the Executive Committee in East Rockaway. In 1968, he participated as a delegate to the New York State Republican Convention, and in 1972 at the Republican National Convention. As a conservative Republican he was in the congressional elections of 1970 in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Allard K. Lowenstein on 4 January 1971. He ran in 1972 in the fourth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1973, to succeed John W. Wydler. He was re-elected nine times in a row. Since he resigned in 1992 to a bid again, he retired after January 3, 1993 in the Congress. During his time as a congressman he had presided over the House Energy and Commerce Committee and promoted in 1990, the changes in the Federal Pollution Control Act.

After the end of his tenure, he founded an own consulting company in government affairs in Washington DC He died on June 11, 2012 in Arlington.