Scott Peters (politician)

Scott H. Peters ( born June 17, 1958 in Springfield, Ohio) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Scott Peters was born in Ohio and grew up in Michigan. Later he studied until 1980 at the Duke University in Durham (North Carolina). In the years 1980 and 1981 he worked for the Environmental Protection Agency. After a subsequent law degree from New York University and his 1984 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in California. One of his specialties is environmental law. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1991 and 1996 he was a deputy prosecutor for the city of San Diego. From 2000 to 2008 he sat in the local city council, which he chaired in 2006. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Commissioner of the port area of San Diego.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Peters was the 52nd electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Duncan D. Hunter took on January 3, 2013, who moved into the 50th district. In the election, he won 51 percent of the vote compared to 49 percent who accounted for his Republican opponent Brian Bilbray, who represented the 50th District in Congress by then. In the House of Representatives Peters Member of Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He is married and has two children.