Thomas W. Ewing

Thomas W. "Tom" Ewing ( born September 19, 1935 in Atlanta, Logan County, Illinois) is an American politician. Between 1991 and 2001 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Ewing attended until 1957, Millikin University in Decatur. From 1957 to 1963 he was the United States Army in reserve. In 1958, he was in active military service. Then he studied until 1968 at the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago Jura. From 1968 to 1973 Ewing served as deputy prosecutor in Livingston County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1974 to 1991 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1986 to 1990 he was a member of the State Board of his party. In 1980 and 1984 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions, on each of which Ronald Reagan was nominated as a presidential candidate.

Following the resignation of Mr Edward Rell Madigan, who joined the cabinet as Minister of Agriculture Bush, Ewing was in the due election for the 15th seat from Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on July 2, 1991. After four elections he could remain until January 3, 2001 at the Congress. In 2000, Ewing gave up another candidacy. Between 2001 and 2007 he was chairman of the company founded Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee in 2000.