Matt Cartwright

Matthew A. " Matt" Cartwright ( born May 1, 1961 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Matt Cartwright attended Upper Canada College until 1979, in Toronto. Subsequently, he studied until 1986 at Hamilton College in Clinton (New York). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his was made in 1986 admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. In the meantime he studied in 1981 at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he met his future wife, Marion. Both spouses were lawyers and then work for the resident in the area of Scranton law firm that his wife's family belonged ( Munley, Munley and Cartwright ). The company specialized in consumer affairs. Politically, Cartwright joined the Democratic Party. In July 1992 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in New York, was nominated for the Bill Clinton as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Cartwright was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Tim Holden took on January 3, 2013, he had defeated in the Democratic Primary. In the actual election in November 2012, he sat down with 61 percent of the vote against by the nominee for the Republican Party Laureen Cummings. In Congress, Cartwright is a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in four sub-committees.