Lou Barletta

Louis " Lou" Barletta ( born January 28, 1956 in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since 2011 he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lou Barletta visited until 1974, the Hazleton High School and studied at the Bloomsburg University after that. In the meantime, he was also active as a baseball player, but with little success. Then he worked with in the family business, which operated in construction and heating oil business. In 1984 he founded a company that specialized in road markings. This successful company he kept until 2000. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. From 1998 to 2000 he was a councilor in Hazleton; 2000 to 2010, he served as mayor of this place. In the years 2002 and 2008, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case still.

In the congressional elections of 2010 Barletta but was then in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the defeated him before Democrats took Paul E. Kanjorski on January 3, 2011. He is a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, and in three sub-committees. With his wife, he has four daughters.

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