John Porter (Illinois politician)

John Edward Porter ( born June 1, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1980 and 2001 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Porter attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1953, the Evanston Township High School. In the years 1953 and 1954 he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. This was followed up in 1957 to study at Northwestern University in Evanston. After studying law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his 1961 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. From 1958 to 1964 Porter was one of the United States Army in reserve. In the years 1961-1963 he worked for the Federal Ministry of Justice. He then worked as a private lawyer again. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1973 to 1979 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Illinois. In 1978, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

After the resignation of Abner J. Mikva MEPs Porter was but then at the due election for the tenth seat of Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 22 January 1980. After ten elections he could remain until January 3, 2001 at the Congress. In 2000, he renounced a new Congress candidacy. Today John Porter is a partner in a large law firm.