Bill Lipinski

William Oliver "Bill" Lipinski ( born December 22, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 2005 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bill Lipinski attended until 1956, St. Patrick High School in Chicago and studied in the years 1956 and 1957 from Loras College in Dubuque (Iowa). Between 1961 and 1967 he was a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. He also proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1975 and 1982 he was a town councilor in Chicago. In the years 1976 and 1984, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In 1977, he was also a delegate to the regional Democratic convention in Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Lipinski was the fifth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John G. Fary on January 3, 1983. After ten re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005 eleven legislative periods. Since 1993 he represented there as a successor to Marty Russo the third district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. He was a member of the Transportation Committee. Within his party, Bill Lipinski was regarded as rather conservative MP. This mainly concerned the foreign policy.

In 2004, Lipinski abandoned shortly on a new Congress candidacy after he won the Democratic Primary. In his place, his son Dan was re-nominated by the party leadership and then also elected to the House of Representatives, where he has since consulted.