George Gekas

George William Gekas ( born April 14, 1930 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 2003 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Gekas visited in his hometown of Harrisburg until 1948, the William Penn High School. Then he studied until 1952 at Dickinson College in Carlisle. Between 1953 and 1955 he served in the U.S. Army. After a subsequent law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle and his 1958 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. From 1960 to 1966 he was deputy district attorney in Dauphin County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1966 to 1974 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1976-1982 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Gekas was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Allen E. Ertel on January 3, 1983. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 2003, ten legislative periods. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the beginning of the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan fell. 1988 Gekas was one of the persons entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment against the federal judge Alcee Hastings deputies. Ten years later, in 1998, he held the same function in the failed impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. He was considered one of the most conservative members of Congress. In 2002 he was not re-elected. Since then, he is no longer politically have appeared.