John F. Tierney

John F. Tierney ( born September 18, 1951 in Salem, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Since 1997 he represents the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Tierney attended Salem High School and thereafter until 1973, the Salem State College. Then he studied until 1976 at Suffolk University in Boston Jura. He then worked as a lawyer in a law firm. From 1976 to 1996 he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce Salem, as its president, he served in 1995. From 1992 to 1997 he was curator of the Salem State College. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1994, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Tierney was then in the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican Peter G. Torkildsen on 3 January 1997. After previous seven elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in three sub-committees. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. He is regarded as a liberal deputy. In 2010, he was confirmed with 56.9 % of the vote, even though his wife Patrice was then indicted for tax fraud.