Jim Slattery

Jim Slattery

James Charles "Jim" Slattery (born August 4, 1948 in Good Intent , Atchison County , Kansas ) is an American politician . Between 1983 and 1995 he represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jim Slattery attended public schools in Atchison . He then attended the Netherlands School of International Business and Economics until 1969 . In 1970 he graduated from Washburne University in Topeka . After studying law at the same university, he was admitted to the bar in 1975. Then he began to work in Topeka in his new profession.

Politically, Slattery became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1972 and 1978 he was an MP in the Kansas House of Representatives . In 1982 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second District of Kansas . There he took over from James Edmund Jeffries on January 3, 1983 . After he was confirmed in the following five congressional elections, he was able to complete a total of six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1995 . At times he was a member of the committees on energy and trade, veterans affairs and banking control. He also sat on the budget committee.

In 1994 he decided not to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the governor of Kansas. With 35.9 percent of the vote, he lost significantly to Republican Bill Graves . He then moved to Virginia and partnered with a Washington-based law firm. In 2008 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . He got 36.4 percent of the vote and had no chance against the Republican incumbent Pat Roberts .

Web links

• Jim Slattery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Jim Slattery in the nndb (English)