Don Sherwood

Donald L. "Don" Sherwood ( born March 5, 1941 in Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1999 and 2007 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Don Sherwood attended Lackawanna Trail High School and then the Wyoming Seminary Preparatory School. Subsequently, he studied until 1963 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). In the years 1963-1965 he served in the U.S. Army. Professionally, he was then car dealers. His company is still family owned. In the meantime, he was also involved in a local radio station. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1975 to 1998 he sat in the school committee of the city Tunkhannock; since 1992, he was its chairman.

In the congressional elections of 1998, Sherwood was in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph M. McDade on January 3, 1999. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2007, four legislative sessions. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. In 2006 he was not re-elected, which was connected with a then came into the public extramarital relationship.