John Conyers

John Conyers Jr. ( born May 16, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is since 1965 member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the Congressional District 14 of the State of Michigan, which covers the north west of Detroit, Highland Park, Hamtramck and Dearborn.

Life

John Conyers was born in 1929 in Detroit and received his education in the public schools of the city. He served from 1948 to 1950 in the National Guard of Michigan and from 1950 to 1954 in the U.S. Army. As a member of the Army Corps of Engineers, he was used among others in the Korean War. After returning to Michigan, he attended Wayne State University where he was a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and 1958, a Juris Doctor acquired.

He is married and has two sons.

Political career

Conyers was 1971, the number 13 on the so-called "enemies list " of U.S. President Richard Nixon, on which he was referred to as "relevant (r ) black (r ) anti -Nixon spokesman " and made ​​out to be a " weakness for white women ."

For the first time he was elected in 1964 and he has held his post since 1965, making it now after John Dingell, the longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Conyers is a leading figure in the Democratic Party and currently chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives.

It occurs in Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9 /11, 2004 in the debate on the Patriot Act. Its striking quote "We do not read most of the bills " ( "We read most bills do not " ) from the documentation falls on demand Michael Moore's why the Patriot Act was approved so quickly and without content knowledge of the deputies.

In 2007 he was awarded the Spingarn Medal.

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