Howard Coble

John Howard Coble ( born March 18, 1931 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American politician. Since 1985 he represents the state of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Howard Coble attended after high school until 1950, the Appalachian State University in Boone. Thereafter he served 1952-1956 in the U.S. Coast Guard, whose reserve he belonged 1960-1982. In the years 1977 and 1978 he was temporarily reactivated. Until 1958 Coble studied at Guilford College in Greensboro. After studying law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his made ​​in 1966 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Coble joined the Republican Party. In 1969 and between 1979 and 1983 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from North Carolina. From 1969 to 1973 he served as United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina; 1973 to 1977 he was Minister of Finance of the State ( Secretary of the Department of Revenue ).

In the congressional elections of 1984, Coble was in the sixth constituency of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Charles Robin Britt took on January 3, 1985, he had beaten in the election. After the previous 13 elections, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. His current legislative period runs until 3 January 2013. Coble is a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Transport and infrastructure and in five sub-committees. In his time as a congressman, the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan fell. Coble is committed to the interests of agriculture. Within his party he belongs to the Tea Party Caucus, the Group, which has close ties to the Tea Party movement.

Howard Coble is unmarried. He is one of the 30 longest-serving congressman.