Amo Houghton

Amory " Amo " Houghton Jr. ( born August 7, 1926 in Corning, New York ) is a former American politician. Between 1987 and 2005 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Amo Houghton comes from the residents of the State of New York Houghton family, which is mainly active in the business world and in politics and was. His grandfather was the entrepreneur, diplomat and politician Alanson B. Houghton ( 1863-1941 ). He attended St. Paul 's School in Concord (New Hampshire). Between 1945 and 1946 he served in the Marine Corps. Then he studied until 1952 at Harvard University, where he took several courses. He then worked as a private businessman. Between 1964 and 1983 he was CEO of Corning Glass Works, which is now called Corning Incorporated. This company was founded in 1851 by his great-great grandfather. Houghton was also a board member at IBM, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble and Genentech. He was a multimillionaire. His fortune was estimated during his time in Congress about 475 million dollars.

Politically Houghton was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1986 he was in the 34th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Stan Lundine on January 3, 1987. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005 nine legislatures, where he joined the constituency twice. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Houghton was during his time in Congress, not always on the Republican party line. He was one of only four Republicans who voted against the planned impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. In 2001, he voted against a tax bill the administration of President George W. Bush in October 2002 as one of six Republicans opposed the resolution on the Iraq war. In environmental and civil rights issues, he was often on the side of the Democrats.

Amo Houghton was also co-founder of the Republican Main Street Partnership, an intra-party merger between the moderate Republicans. In 2004 he gave up another Congress candidate.