John E. Peterson

John E. Peterson ( born December 25, 1938 in Titusville, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2009 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Peterson attended the Titusville High School and studied at the Pennsylvania State University after that. Between 1958 and 1964 he served in the U.S. Army. Then he ran for 26 years, a grocery store in Pleasantville. He also proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1969 and 1977 he was a councilor in Pleasantville; 1977 to 1984 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. After that he belonged 1985-1996 to the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Peterson was the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William F. Clinger on 3 January 1997. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2009, six legislative periods. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. In 1998 he was a member of the Appropriations Committee and three of its subcommittees. He was regarded as little environmental protection connected politicians. Instead, he sat down for a better use of American sources of energy, especially gas, a. In 2008 he gave up another candidacy.