Robert A. Borski, Jr.

Robert Anthony Borski Jr. ( born October 20, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 2003 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Borski went to 1966 Frankford High School in Philadelphia and then studied until 1971 at the University of Baltimore in Maryland. Later he worked as a stockbroker. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1976 and 1982 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Borski was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Francis Smith on January 3, 1983. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 2003, ten legislative periods. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the beginning of the Iraq war fell. 2002 was Borski one of 81 Democratic Congressman who voted for the military operation in Iraq. In the same year he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Borski founded the lobbying firm Borski Associates. In 2010 it counted the Politics Magazine's most influential Democratic politicians in Pennsylvania.