John Hostettler

John Nathan Hostettler ( born June 19, 1961 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American politician. Between 1995 and 2007 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hostettler attended North Posey High School and then to 1983, the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute. Between 1985 and 1994 he worked as an engineer in a power plant in the Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1994, Hostettler was in the eighth election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank McCloskey on January 3, 1995. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2007, 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.

Hostettler was a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee. He was not always consistent with his party. In October 2002, he was one of only six Republican members of Congress who spoke out against the Iraq war. In the 2006 elections Hostettler defeated Democrat Brad Ellsworth. In December 2009, he announced his candidacy for election in the U.S. Senate. In the Republican primary, he finished behind Marlin Stutzman and the victorious Dan Coats but only the third place.

John Hostettler is married and father of four children.