Henry Hyde (politician)

Henry Hyde

Henry John Hyde (born April 18, 1924 in Chicago , Illinois , †  November 29, 2007 there ) was an American politician . Between 1975 and 2007 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Hyde attended public schools in his home country. During the final phase of World War II , he served in the US Navy between 1944 and 1946 , of which he was a reserve until 1968. After the war he studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC until 1947. After completing a law degree at Loyola University in Chicago and being admitted to the bar in 1949, he began to work in this profession. Since 1952 he was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1967 and 1974 Hyde was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives . In 1971 and 1972 he led the Republican faction there. From 1958 to 1974 he was also a delegate to regional Republican party conventions in Illinois.

In the 1974 congressional election , Hyde was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth constituency of Illinois, where he succeeded Harold R. Collier on January 3, 1975 . After 15 re-elections, he was able to complete a total of 16 legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 2007 . He initiated federal legislation named after him, which, with a few exceptions, prohibits financial aid for abortion ( Hyde Amendment ). In 1986, he was among the MPs who led impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne ; In 1998 he was also involved in the planned impeachment against President Bill Clinton because of the Lewinsky affair .

While Hyde, this process led in 1998, the article "This Hypocrite Broke Up My Family" ( This hypocrite destroyed my family ) published, who reported on an extramarital affair Hydes 1965-1969 with a woman named Cherie Snodgrass. When this affair became known, her husband left her and filed for divorce.

From 1995 to 2001 Hyde headed the Justice Committee and from 2001 to 2007 the Committee on International Relations . During his time as a member of parliament, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Iraq war and the military operation in Afghanistan occurred .

Hyde's time as Congressman was not without its downsides. At the beginning of the 1980s, he was involved in the so-called Savings and Loan Scandal , but without being convicted. During the Iran-Contra affair , he defended President Ronald Reagan's government . In 2006 he renounced another candidacy. He died in Chicago on November 29, 2007.

Web links

• Henry Hyde (politicians) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Henry Hyde in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Henry Hyde in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Talbot, David. Salon.com (September 18, 1998). This hypocrite broke up my Family ( Memento from May 11, 2000 in the Internet Archive )