Don Manzullo

Donald A. Manzullo ( born March 24, 1944 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American politician. From 1993 to 2013 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Donald Manzullo visited until 1962, the Auburn High School in Rockford and then studied until 1967 at the American University in Washington DC After a subsequent law degree from Marquette University and his 1970 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1990 he applied unsuccessfully to have his party's nomination for the congressional elections. At that time he was also a member of the Republican National Committee.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Manzullo was in the 16th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Cox on January 3, 1993. After nine elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2013. In 2012, he lost in the primaries of his party against Adam Kinzinger and had to resign in the wake of the Parliament. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. From 1987 to 1991 he was Chairman of the Committee on Small Business. Most recently, he was a member of the Finance Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee and in five sub-committees. He also was a member of six Congressional Caucuses. He is regarded as very conservative.