Steve Rothman

Steven R. "Steve" Rothman ( born October 14, 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American politician. From 1997 to 2013 he represented the State of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Steve Rothman attended until 1970 the Tenafly High School. Then he studied until 1974 at Syracuse University in upstate New York. After a subsequent law degree from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and his admission to the bar he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1983 and 1989, Rothman officiated as mayor of Englewood. From 1993 to 1996 he worked as a judge of the Surrogate Court of Bergen County.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Rothman was in the ninth constituency of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the exchanged in the Senate Robert Torricelli on 3 January 1997. He was re-elected seven times, most recently in 2010 with 61 percent of the vote. After the regular contemporary clean slate of the constituencies in the wake of the census in 2010 took up his official and party colleague Bill Pascrell, who had previously represented the eighth congressional election District of New Jersey, in the code of the Democratic Party for the candidacy to the ninth constituency against the incumbent Rothman and defeated him, so Rothmans term ended on January 3, 2013. Rothman was a member of the Appropriations Committee and in two of its subcommittees.