Steve Stockman

Steve Stockman ( born November 14, 1956 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 1997 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Steve Stockman attended Dondero High School and studied until 1990 at the University of Houston. He then worked as an accountant. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1994 he was in the ninth election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jack Brooks on January 3, 1995. Two years earlier he had first candidate against the incumbent Democrats since 1953, this was there but still inferior.

As Stockman has not been confirmed in 1996, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1997. There he set a new record for submission during a legislature with 21 separate law templates and 241 community templates. In 1998, he competed unsuccessfully in the primaries of his party for a post in the State Railway Commission. In 2006, a failed attempt to return as an independent candidate in the Congress. Steve Stockman has stand as a candidate for the congressional primaries of the Republican Party this year in spring 2012. He strives in the 14th district of Texas in the footsteps of not more candidates Ron Paul.