Bruce Morrison

Bruce Morrison (1985)

Bruce Andrew Morrison (born October 8, 1944 in New York City ) is an American politician . Between 1983 and 1991 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bruce Morrison attended public schools in his home country. In 1962 he graduated from Northport High School . He then studied chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge until 1965 . He then continued his studies until 1970 at the University of Illinois at Urbana . Morrison graduated from Yale University in 1973 , where he studied law. There he was a classmate of the future President Bill Clinton and his later wife Hillary . After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in his new profession in New Haven . He was also admitted to the bar in the United States Supreme Court in 1976 .

Morrison became a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1982 congressional elections, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Connecticut . There he stepped on January 3, 1983 to succeed Republican Larry DeNardis , whom he had defeated in the election. After three re-elections, Morrison could spend four terms in Congress until January 3, 1991 . There he was temporarily a member of the banking and legal committees. Between 1989 and 1991 he chaired the subcommittee dealing with immigration. Morrison was a human rights advocate and co-author of the 1990 Immigration Act.

In 1990 he declined to run for Congress again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Connecticut, behind the victorious Lowell P. Weicker , who had run as an independent, and the second-placed Republican John G. Rowland only third with 20.7 percent of the vote. He then founded his own law firm in Hamden . Morrison belonged to the Irish-American group and tried to mediate in the conflict over Northern Ireland . Between 1995 and 2000 he was a director of the Federal Housing Finance Board , an independent federal agency, under President Clinton . In the 2008 presidential election Morrision supported Barack Obama .

Bruce Morrison is married and lives in Bethesda ( Maryland ).

Web links

• Bruce Morrison in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)