Jerry Lewis (California politician)

Charles Jeremy "Jerry" Lewis ( born October 21, 1934 in Seattle ( and according to other sources in Spokane ), Washington ) is an American politician of the Republican Party and was from 1979 to 2013 member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California.

Biography

After visiting the San Bernardino High School, he graduated from 1952 to 1956 a degree in Public Administration at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Government). After that, he was initially a Employees of the Coro Foundation before he worked as an insurance broker. Between 1964 and 1968 he was a member of the School Board ( School Board ) of San Bernardino and in the meantime 1966 employees in the campaign staff of Jerry Pettis, who was subsequently elected as Congressman for California.

His own political career began with the election of a member of the State Assembly of California (California State Assembly ), to which he belonged from 1969 to 1978.

In 1978 he was elected as a Republican candidate, and in place of Pettis wife, Shirley Neil Pettis, even for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represented there by fourteen elections in a row from 3 January 1979 as the 37th from 1983 to 1993 35, 1993-2003, and finally the 40th of January 3, 2003 to the 41st congressional District of California. He renounced in 2012 for reelection and retired on January 3, 2013, the Congress of.

During his parliamentary membership, he was within his party, he was from 1989 to 1993 chairman of the House Republican Conference. After he was from 2005 to 2007 chairman of the influential Investment Committee (U.S. House Committee on Appropriations ), he has since struggled highest member of the Republican minority fraction ( Ranking Minority Member) in this committee.