James H. Scheuer

James Haas "Jim" Scheuer ( born February 6, 1920 in New York City; † August 30, 2005 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1973, and again from 1975 to 1993, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Scheuer visited to 1938 Fieldston School in Riverdale and thereafter until 1942, the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. In the years 1943 to 1945, he served during the Second World War in the United States Army. Then he graduated from the Harvard Business School. Between 1945 and 1946 he worked for the federal agency Foreign Economic Administration. After studying law at Columbia University and his 1948 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. From 1951 to 1957 he was employed by the authority for the control of price stability (Office of Price Stabilization ). He also worked as a speech writer and lecturer. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1962 he applied unsuccessfully to have his party's nomination for the upcoming congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 1964, Scheuer was selected as the candidate of the Democrats and the Liberal Party of New York in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1965. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1973 four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. In 1972, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

In the years 1972 and 1973, Scheuer headed the National Alliance for Safer Cities. At the same time he was 1972-1974 President of the National Housing Conference. In the elections of 1974 he was elected to Congress again in the eleventh district of his state, where he began his work on January 3, 1975. After eight elections he could remain there until January 3, 1993. Since 1983 he has represented the third district of New York State. From 1977 to 1977 he was chairman of the Select Committee on Population. In 1992 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was James Scheuer between 1994 and 1996 one of the directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He died on 30 August 2005 in Washington.