John Doolittle

John Doolittle

John Taylor Doolittle (born October 30, 1950 in Glendale , California ) is an American politician . Between 1991 and 2009 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Doolittle attended Cupertino High School until 1968 and then studied history at the University of California at Santa Cruz until 1972 . After studying law at the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in Stockton and being admitted to the bar in 1978, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1981 and 1990 he was a member of the California State Senate . There he led the Republican parliamentary group from 1987 to 1990.

Doolittle achieved greater notoriety when, in the run-up to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he introduced a resolution to the Senate calling for measures up to and including the exclusion of Soviet athletes from the Olympics. This had its origin in the growing anti-Soviet sentiment in the USA since the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight 007 in September 1983. The Senate adopted the resolution without a dissenting vote. The organizing committee of the games promised to guarantee entry for all participants, but the now growing mutual resentment ultimately resulted in a boycott of most of the Eastern bloc countries .

In the 1990 congressional election , Doolittle was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 14th  constituency of California , where he succeeded Norman D. Shumway on January 3, 1991 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 2009 . Since 1993 he has represented the fourth district of his state there as the successor to Victor H. Fazio . He was considered a conservative MP. During his time in Congress, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan fell . In recent years, both Doolittle himself and his wife have been linked to the Jack Abramoff bribery scandal . His name also appeared in connection with other corruption cases. In 2008 he decided not to run again.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lodi News-Sentinel: Sen. Doolittle seeks to ban USSR athletes (October 20, 1983)
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 892.
3. ↑ Washington Post: Doolittle Aides Subpoenaed in Rehearsal (September 4, 2007)

Web links

Wikisource: John Doolittle  - Sources and full texts (English)

• John Doolittle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Doolittle in the nndb (English)