Gerry Sikorski

Gerald Edward " Gerry " Sikorski ( born April 26, 1948 in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1993 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gerry Sikorski visited until 1966 the Breckenridge High School. This was followed up in 1970 to study at the University of Minnesota. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1973 admitted to the bar he began in 1974 in Stillwater to practice in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party, which in Minnesota since a merger in 1944 called the Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party.

From 1976 to 1982, Sikorski was sitting in the Minnesota Senate. In the congressional elections of 1982 he was in the sixth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Vin Weber on January 3, 1983. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 five legislative sessions. During this time the 27th Amendment was adopted in 1992.

In the elections of 1992, Sikorski lost to Rod Grams of the Republican Party. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Sikorski was working as a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington. Privately, he lives in Stillwater.