Bob Matsui

Robert Takeo "Bob" Matsui ( born September 17, 1941 in Sacramento, California, † January 1, 2005 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1979 and 2005 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bob Matsui visited until 1959 the C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento and then studied until 1963 at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent study of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and his 1966 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1971 and 1978, Matsui was sitting on the City Council of Sacramento. He also belonged to several other local bodies. In 1977 he was deputy mayor of Sacramento.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Matsui was the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John E. Moss on January 3, 1979. After 13 Re-elections he could remain until his death on 1 January 2005 in Congress. Since 1993 he represented there as a successor to Nancy Pelosi the fifth 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. After his death, his wife Doris was chosen as his successor in Congress, exercising the mandate until today.

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