Lynn Woolsey

Lynn C. Woolsey ( born November 3, 1937 in Seattle, Washington) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 1993 to 2013, she represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lynn Woolsey attended Lincoln High School in Seattle and then from 1955 to 1957 the local University of Washington. In 1980, she was still studying at the University of San Francisco. She worked in the personnel department and ran his own company. She taught at several colleges in California. At the same time she began a career in politics as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1984 and 1992 she served on the city council of Petaluma. In the years 1989 and 1992 she was there Deputy Mayor.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Woolsey was in the sixth constituency of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Barbara Boxer on January 3, 1993. She was re-elected nine times and announced in 2011 not to run in the 2012 election for reasons of age again. Therefore, they retired from the House of Representatives on January 3, 2013. Lynn Woolsey was a decided opponent of the Iraq war and often demanded the withdrawal of American troops from that country. Domestically, they sat down, inter alia, for the equality of all religions. In Congress, she was a member of the education and labor committee and the Committee on Science, Technology and Space and in three sub-committees. She also belonged to the left-liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus on.