Vito Fossella

Vito John Fossella, Jr. ( born March 9, 1965 Staten Iceland, New York City ) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2009 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Vito Fossella is the great-grandson of Congressman James A. O'Leary ( 1889-1944 ). He graduated from Monsignor Farrell High School in Staten Iceland and then in 1987 to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of belonging. After a subsequent law degree from Fordham University and his 1994 was admitted to the bar he began to work in New York City in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a member of the City Council of New York.

Following the resignation of deputies Susan Molinari Fossella was at the due election for the 13th seat from New York whose successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1997. After five elections he could remain until January 3, 2009 at the Congress. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Fossella was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as in three sub-committees. For New York standards he was very conservative. Since 2005, Fossella was because of its high campaign costs, but also due to dubious election campaign methods in the headlines. In 2008 was added in an extramarital affair. He then said he wanted to finish his current term in Congress. At the same time he refused at the polls in 2008 to another candidacy. Then he put this plan into action.