Joe Hoeffel

Joseph Merrill "Joe" Hoeffel III ( born September 3, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1999 and 2005 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joe Hoeffel attended the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, and then to 1972 the Boston University. Subsequently, he studied until 1986 at Temple University law. Since 1972, he was politically active. He was an opponent of the Vietnam War and joined the Democratic Party. From 1977 to 1984 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; between 1992 and 1998 he was District in Montgomery County.

In the congressional elections of 1998, Hoeffel was in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Jon D. Fox on January 3, 1999. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, three legislative periods. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.

In 2004 he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he ran for election to the U.S. Senator, but was defeated by Republican incumbent Arlen Specter with 42:53 percent of the vote. Between 2006 and 2007 he held the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development in Pennsylvania. He was deputy minister of state for economic development. In 2010, he joined unsuccessful in the primaries of his party for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania.

Joe Hoeffel is married and father of two children.