Roscoe Bartlett

Roscoe Gardner Bartlett ( born June 3, 1926 in Moreland, Jefferson County, Kentucky) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2013 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roscoe Bartlett is a descendant of Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) and Josiah Bartlett junior (1768-1838), who sat for New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and in the U.S. House of Representatives. He attended in Takoma Park ( Maryland), where he studied theology and biology until 1947 the Columbia Union College. Then he studied until 1948 at the University of Maryland at College Park, the subject of philosophy. From 1948 to 1952 he was a faculty member of this university. Between 1952 and 1954 he continued his education with a medical degree at Loma Linda School of Medicine in California. By 1956, he was assistant professor at Howard University Medical School.

Politically Bartlett was a member of the Republican Party. In 1982 he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1992, but he was then in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Beverly Byron on January 3, 1993, was re-elected nine times, most recently in 2010 at the age of 84 years, with 61.8 percent of the vote. After Ralph Hall, he was the second oldest member of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. In the congressional elections in 2012 Bartlett lost with 38 to 59 percent of the vote to Democrat John K. Delaney, who thus replaced him on January 3 2013 parliament. Bartlett had fallen to the changed boundary between the electoral districts after the census of 2010 for victims, its traditional rural constituency some of the suburbs of Washington, DC incorporated and thus its electoral base detracted, so he had been considered before the election as one of the most vulnerable members of Congress.

Bartlett was a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Committee on Science, Space and Technology and the Committee on Small Business and a total of five subcommittees. Within his group he was involved in the Tea Party Movement Tea Party Caucus and related to the conservative Republican Study Committee, but also in the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership.

With his wife Ellen Roscoe Bartlett has ten children, including the son of Joseph, formerly a deputy in the Parliament of Maryland.