Douglas H. Bosco

Douglas Harry Bosco ( born July 28, 1946 in New York City ) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1991 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The Brooklyn-born Douglas Bosco attended Homestead High School in Sunnyvale (California ) and thereafter until 1963, the Capitol Page School in Washington DC This was followed up in 1968 to study at Willamette University in Salem ( Oregon). After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its 1971 for the admission to the bar he began in San Rafael to work in this profession. In the years 1973 and 1974 he was employed in various positions in the administration in Marin County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1979 and 1982 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. In August 1980 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, was nominated to the President Jimmy Carter for reelection; In 1982 he took part in California on regional party conference.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Bosco was elected in the first district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Eugene A. Chappie on January 3, 1983. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1991 four legislative sessions. In 1990 he was defeated by Republican Frank Riggs. 1994 Douglas Bosco failed to Congress primaries of his party. In 2003 he was appointed by Governor Gray Davis in the state's Coastal Protection Commission (State Coastal Conservancy ) of California appointed, chaired by then he took over in 2004.