Doug Ose

Douglas Arlo " Doug " Ose (* June 27, 1955 in Sacramento, California) is an American politician. Between 1999 and 2005 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Doug Ose attended Rio Americano High School and then studied until 1977 at the University of California at Berkeley. He then worked as a businessman in Sacramento. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1998, Ose was the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Victor H. Fazio on 3 January 1999. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, three legislative periods. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Ose was interim chairman of the Committee on Government reforms. As he had promised in his first election to want to remain only three parliamentary terms in Congress, he resigned in 2004 to another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Ose again worked in the private business, including as a land developer. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully in the primary for the U.S. Senate; In 2008 he competed well without success in the fourth electoral district of California to his return to the House of Representatives. Doug Ose is married and has two daughters.