Jane Harman

Jane Harman

Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945 in New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . She represented the state of California from 1993 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2011 in the United States House of Representatives .

Harman is the daughter of Lucille Geier and Adolph N. Lakes. Her father, who was born in Poland, emigrated to Germany and completed his medical studies there in 1935 during the National Socialist era . He then emigrated to New York and worked as a doctor. Her mother, who immigrated to the United States from Russia, was the first member of her family to attend college. The family moved to Los Angeles when Harman was a child . After graduating from high school in 1962, she studied at Smith College , which she left with a bachelor's degree in 1966 . She was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic association . She then graduated from Harvard Law School , which she graduated in 1969. She then worked for Senator John V. Tunney, among others .

In 1980 she divorced Richard Frank, with whom she has two children, and in the same year married the entrepreneur Sidney Harman († 2011), with whom she also has two children.

In January 1999, she retired the first time from the Congress in order to for the nomination of their party for election as governor of California to apply. However, it was defeated by Gray Davis . In the following House election in 2000 , she defeated the Republican Steven T. Kuykendall , who had previously succeeded her. From January 2001 she was again a member of the House of Representatives. On February 8, 2011, she announced that she was stepping down from her mandate to become director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . On February 28, 2011, the resignation became final.

Web links

Commons : Jane Harman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jane Harman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kurt F. Stone: The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members. 2011, p. 518 .
2. ↑ Jane Sprague Zones: Jane Harman. In: Jewish Women's Archive.
3. ↑ HARMAN, Jane L. - Biographical Information. In: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 2007, accessed August 31, 2008 . 
4. ↑ Jane Harman Papers
5. ↑ Matthew Andrew Wasniewski: Women in Congress, 1917-2006. P. 832.
6. ↑ Jane Harman to resign from Congress. In: The Washington Post , February 7, 2011.