Dan Lipinski

Daniel William " Dan " Lipinski ( born July 15, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represents the state of Illinois since 2005 in the U.S. House of Representatives. He succeeded his father, Bill Lipinski.

Dan Lipinski graduated from Northwestern University in 1988 with a Bachelor; the following year he earned a master's degree from Stanford University. After an internship at the U.S. Department of Labor between 1993 and 1996 he worked on the staff of Congressman George E. Sang champion and Jerry Costello; after he worked in the campaign team of Richard A. Devine, who successfully applied for the post of prosecutor in Cook County.

In 1998, Lipinski his education, as he to the Ph.D. of political science at Duke University doctorate. From January to August 1999, he was the communications staff of Dick Gephardt, chairman of the Democratic minority faction in the House of Representatives, busy. He was, from 2000 to 2001 a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame; then he moved to the University of Tennessee, where he remained until 2004.

This year, the 1983 sitting in Congress Bill Lipinski first ran for reelection and won easily the Primary his party. Immediately after, he announced his resignation and convinced the Democratic leadership of Illinois to put in his place his son on the ballot. This called forth opposition in parts of the party, because Dan Lipinski was in this way without the detour of the code to the democratic congress candidates. He stepped in as a relatively conservative applicable third election district which shall include the south-west of Chicago and some suburbs, and sat down, similar to moderate political principles as his father representative, against the Republican Ryan Chlada by. As a result, he was re-elected four times, most recently in 2012 with 68 percent of the vote against Republican Richard Grabowski.