John Salazar

John Tony Salazar ( born July 21, 1953 in Alamosa, Colorado ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, he represented from 2005 to 2011 the third congressional district of the state of Colorado. Previously, he was from 2003 to 2005 deputy in the House of Representatives from Colorado.

Family

Salazar is married and has three sons. His younger brother, Ken Salazar was also a member of Congress and represented Colorado as a senator; He is Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of the United States Obama since 20 January 2009.

Parliamentary work

Salazar was a member of the House of Representatives to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He was a member of the Blue Dog Democrats, an intra-party coalition of moderate conservative politicians.

In the election year of 2006, Salazar had the first time for re-election, his opponent was Republican Scott Tipton. Due to the relatively balanced structure of the voter constituency was calculated using a head-to -head race, but Salazar won quite clear with 61.6 % of votes. Two years later, he reached a similar result with a share of 61.4 % and was reconfirmed in office; his Republican opponent Wayne Wolf came to 38.6 % of the vote. Scott Tipton won the seat by Salazar in the 2010 elections.