Lou Barletta

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Lou Barletta (2011)

Louis "Lou" Barletta (* 28. January 1956 in Hazleton , Luzerne County , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2011 he has represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives . He was defeated in the 2018 Senate election and is leaving Congress in January 2019.

Career

Lou Barletta attended Hazleton High School until 1974 and then studied at Bloomsburg University . In the meantime he was also active as a baseball player, but not very successful. Then he worked in the family-owned company that operated in the construction and heating oil business. In 1984 he founded a company specializing in road markings. He kept this successful company until 2000.

From 1998 to 2000 he was a local councilor in Hazleton; from 2000 to 2010 he was mayor of this place. In 2002 and 2008 he ran unsuccessfully for the congress .

In the 2010 election , Barletta was elected in the eleventh congressional constituency of Pennsylvania to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Paul E. Kanjorski on January 3, 2011 . He is or was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor , the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, as well as seven sub-committees.

Barletta has always been re-elected, most recently in 2016. In 2018, he decided not to run again for his previous seat, but to run for the Republicans against the Democratic mandate holder Bob Casey in the election to the United States Senate . He lost 43 to 56 percent of the vote. Barletta resigns from Congress on January 3, 2019.

He and his wife have four daughters.

Web links

Commons : Lou Barletta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Pennsylvania US Senate Election Results. In: The New York Times , November 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Barletta, Lou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barletta, Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hazleton , Pennsylvania