Paul McHale

Paul F. McHale, Jr. ( born July 26, 1950 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 1999 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Paul McHale visited the native Liberty High School and then studied until 1972 at Lehigh University law. He then continued his studies until 1977 at the law school at Georgetown University in Washington DC continued. In the meantime, he served in the years 1972-1974 in the Marine Corps, the Reserve he served until 2007. He brought it up to colonel. McHale took an active part in the Gulf War in the early 1990s. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1980, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the congressional elections. Between 1983 and 1991 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1992, McHale was in the 15th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Donald L. Ritter on January 3, 1993. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1999, three legislative periods. He noticed, as he - although a member of the Democrats - 1998 President Bill Clinton invited in as part of the Lewinsky affair to resign. He was also one of only five Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who supported the impeachment of the President.

In 1998, Paul McHale gave up another candidacy. Between 2003 and 2009 he was Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security ( Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense ) under the Republican President George W. Bush.