Steve Horn

John Stephen Horn ( born May 31, 1931 in San Juan Bautista, California, † February 17 in Long Beach, California, 2011 ) was an American politician. Between 1993 and 2003 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Horn studied until 1953 at Stanford University. From 1954 to 1962 he was a member of the reserve of the U.S. Army. In 1955, he completed a degree in public administration at the Graduate School of Public Administration from Harvard University. Then he studied until 1958 at Stanford philosophy. In the years 1959 and 1960, Horn worked on the staff of U.S. labor minister James P. Mitchell. After that he belonged until 1966 to the staff of U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel. From 1969 to 1980 he was Vice- President of the Civil Rights Commission. For some time he served as an administrator at the American University in the capital Washington. From 1970 to 1988 he headed the California State University at Long Beach, whose Fakultär he also belonged. Horn was from 1972 to 1988 and a member of the advisory committee of the Federal Institute for the criminal nature ( National Institute of Corrections ).

Politically, horn member of the Republican Party. In 1988, he sought unsuccessfully to have his party's nomination for the congressional elections. In the congressional elections of 1992, but was then the 38th 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, 1993. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2003, five legislative sessions. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the beginning of the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan fell.

In 2002, John Horn gave up another candidacy. Later, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease. He died on February 17, 2011 in Long Beach.