James C. Greenwood

James Charles Greenwood ( born May 4, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2005 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Greenwood visited in Newton until 1969 the council rock high school. Then he studied until 1973 at Dickinson College in Carlisle sociology. Between 1972 and 1976 he worked for John Renninger, one member in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. From 1977 to 1980 he worked in Bucks County as a social worker at the youth care. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1981 to 1986 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1992 he was a member of the state Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Greenwood was in the eighth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Peter H. Mayer food on January 3, 1993. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, six legislative periods. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Greenwood was at times a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Education and Labor. He was considered a moderate to liberal parliamentarians. During the later failed impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton he voted in two of the four counts with the Democrats for the President.

Located in the election campaign of 2004, in which he participated until then, James Greenwood announced his resignation as a complete surprise to another candidacy and got out of the race for re-election. Today, he is CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization ( BIO). With his wife, Tina, he has four grown children.