Mel Levine

Meldon Edises " Mel" Levine ( born June 7, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1993 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mel Levine attended until 1960, the Beverly Hills High School and then studied until 1964 at the University of California at Berkeley until 1966, and at Princeton University. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1970 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1977 and 1982 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. During the same period, he participated in all regional party conferences of the Democrats in California as a delegate. In the years 1980 and 1984 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Levine was in the 27th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bob Dornan on January 3, 1983. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1993 five legislative sessions. 1992 renounced Levine on another candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Today he works as a lawyer in a law firm community. He is married to his second marriage to journalist Connie Bruck. From a previous marriage he has three children.