Lois Capps

Lois Capps ( born January 10, 1938 in Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin as Lois Smith) is an American politician. Since 1998, it represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lois Smith was born as the daughter of a clergyman. By 1959, she studied at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma (Washington ) and thereafter until 1964 at Yale University. In 1990 they even graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she has her official residence since 1960. She worked for 20 years as a nurse and as a health expert at public schools in Santa Barbara, where she taught the students in the field of health care. During her time at Yale, she met her husband, Walter Capps, whom she married in 1960. In 1996 her husband was elected in 22 electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives. He could D.C. his mandate in Washington but only exercise between January 3, 1997, his death on 28 October 1997.

After the death of her husband, Lois Capps was elected as a candidate of the Democratic Party to its successor in Congress, where she started her new mandate on 17 March 1998. After previous seven elections they may exercise it until today. Since 2003, she represents as the successor of Elton Gallegly 23 district of their state. In her time as a Congressman, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Capps is a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as in three sub-committees.