Dave Obey

David Ross "Dave" Obey ( born October 3, 1938 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was from 1969 to 2011 member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represented most recently the seventh congressional district of the state of Wisconsin.

Career

Dave Obey visited until 1956, the Wausau High School and then studied until 1962 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He then worked as a Realtor in the real estate industry.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1963 and 1969 he sat as an MP in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Following the resignation of Congressman Melvin R. Laird, he was at the due election for the seventh seat of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 April 1969. After 20 Re-elections he could remain until January 3, 2011 at the Congress. There he was, among others, Chairman of the Budget Committee. He was considered one of the most liberal politicians in the House and sees himself in the progressive tradition of Robert La Follette.

In Obey's time as a congressman fell among other things, the end of the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Iraq war. In 2010 he gave up another candidacy. Its seat was in the election in November of this year on the Republican Sean Duffy.

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