Bruce Vento

Bruce Frank Vento ( October 7, 1940 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, † October 10, 2000 ) was an American politician. Between 1977 and 2000 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bruce Vento attended the public schools in Saint Paul. In the years 1958 and 1959 he graduated from the St. Thomas College. This is followed by a study at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis followed, which he finished in 1961. Until 1965, he then studied at the University of Wisconsin, before he finished his studies at the University of Minnesota in 1966. Between 1965 and 1976 Vento worked as a teacher in public schools in Minneapolis. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party, which in Minnesota is called since a merger in 1944, the Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party. From 1971 to 1976 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Minnesota.

In the congressional elections of 1976 Benevento in the fourth electoral district of Minnesota was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Karth on January 3, 1977. After eleven re- election he was able to remain until his death on 10 October 2000 in Congress. For the elections of 2000, he opted not to run again. He died before the end of his last term of office on January 3, 2001.

Bruce Vento stood up for the environment. He was also instrumental in the so-called McKinney - Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 1986. By this law, on which also Rep. Stewart McKinney of Connecticut participated, the situation of the homeless has been improved. Bruce Vento died of a rare, caused by asbestos poisoning, cancer, the so-called asbestos - mesothelioma.