Ken Calvert

Kenneth Stanton " Ken " Calvert ( born June 8, 1953 in Corona, California) is an American politician. Since 1993 he represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ken Calvert attended until 1971 the Corona High School. In 1973 he graduated from Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga. Then he studied until 1975 at the San Diego State University. In the following five years he was manager of a family-owned restaurants; thereafter he founded his own real estate company. Moreover, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. Right after high school, he worked in 1972 for Congressman Victor Veysey. In 1982, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the congressional elections. Between 1984 and 1988 he was the Republican Party chairman in Riverside County.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Calvert was the 43rd electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ron Packard on January 3, 1993. According to previously nine elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee and in three sub-committees. He also serves on the International Conservation Caucus. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Calvert was confronted during his Congress membership with corruption allegations. The ethics organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) Calvert counted among the 15 most corrupt members of Congress. However, so far was no indictment.