Tom Railsback

Thomas Fisher "Tom" Railsback ( born January 22, 1932 in Moline, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1967 and 1983 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tom Railsback attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1954, the Grinnell College in Iowa. After studying law at the School of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago and his 1957 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession, having served from 1957 to 1959 still in the U.S. Army. He also proposed as a member of the Republican Party also a political career. From 1962 to 1966 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1966, Railsback was in the 19th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Gale Schisler on January 3, 1967. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1983 eight legislatures. In this time were, among others, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and in 1974, the Watergate affair. At times, Railsback was a member of the Judiciary Committee. In 1982, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

Since his retirement from Congress Tom Railsback has worked as a lobbyist in the telecommunications industry.

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