Romano L. Mazzoli

Romano Louis Mazzoli ( born November 2, 1932 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American politician. Between 1971 and 1995 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Romano Mazzoli initially enjoyed a private school in his hometown of Louisville. Then he studied until 1954 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend (Indiana). Between 1954 and 1956 he served as a soldier in the United States Army. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1960 was admitted to the bar he began in Louisville to work in this profession. Between 1963 and 1967 he lectured on business law at Bellamine College.

Politically, Mazzoli joined the Democratic Party. Between 1968 and 1970 he sat in the Senate from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1970, he was the third election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William O. Cowger on January 3, 1971. After eleven re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1995 twelve contiguous legislatures. There he was with Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, the driving force behind a reform of the immigration rules, which became known as the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. 1986 Mazzoli was involved in the implementation of the impeachment of Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne.

During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives of the Vietnam War ended. 1974 overshadowed the Watergate political life in the United States. In the years 1971 and 1992, the 26th and the 27th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. 1994 renounced Mazzoli on a bid again. After his time in Congress, he taught at various universities Jura. In 2002 he was at the political faculty of Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School, works. In 2006 he was co-author of an article in the Washington Post, which dealt with the 1986 co-authored by him naturalization law at the present time.