John Culberson

John Abney Culberson ( born August 24, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is an American politician. Since 2001 he represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Culberson attended the common schools and then studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas history. This was followed up in 1989 to study law at South Texas College of Law in Houston. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. From 1986 to 2001 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas. In the meantime, he worked as an attorney for the law firm Lorance and Thompson.

In the congressional elections of 2000, Culberson was in the seventh election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Reynolds Archer on January 3, 2001. After five previous elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Culberson is a member of the Appropriations Committee and three of its subcommittees. He is considered a conservative MP. Within his group he belongs to the Tea Party movement related Tea Party Caucus and the Republican Study Committee. In his last re-election so far in 2010, he had no rival candidates.