Gwen Moore

Gwen Moore

Gwendolynne Sophia "Gwen" Moore (born April 18, 1951 in Racine , Wisconsin ) is an American politician . She has represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives since 2005 .

Career

Gwen Moore attended Northern Division High School and then studied at Marquette University until 1978 . She then worked for the Milwaukee City Council as a Housing Officer in Property Management. Politically, she joined the Democratic Party . She was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly between 1989 and 1992 . Then she was a member of the State Senate from 1993 to 2003 . In 1997 and 1998 she was President of this body.

In the 2004 congressional election , Moore was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Wisconsin , where she succeeded Jerry Kleczka on January 3, 2005 . As she was re-elected in all subsequent elections, including the one in 2016, she can continue to exercise her mandate today. Her latest legislative term runs until January 3, 2019. She is or was a member of the Budget Committee and the Financial Services Committee and three of its sub-committees.

In 2006 she caused a sensation when she and several other congressmen demonstrated in front of the Sudanese embassy against the policies of Sudan in the Darfur region and entered the embassy premises. For this, the MPs were briefly arrested and fined. With this, however, the group had achieved its goal of publicizing the criticism of Sudanese politics.

Individual evidence

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• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

• Gwen Moore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Web presence at the congress