Louie Gohmert

Louie Gohmert (2010)

Louis Buller "Louie" Gohmert Jr. (born August 18, 1953 in Pittsburg , Texas ) is an American judge and politician of the Republican Party . Since 2005 he has represented the 1st Congressional Constituency of the state of Texas in the United States House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Gohmert was born as the son of Louis Gohmert and Mary Sue. Brooks was born in Pittsburg. He grew up in the Texas city of Mount Pleasant, where he attended Mount Pleasant High School until 1971 . He then studied history at Texas A&M University until 1975 . After completing a law degree at Baylor University in Waco , Gohmert worked as a lawyer from 1982 onwards. Between 1978 and 1982 he served in the United States Army . In 1992 he was elected district judge in Smith County , a position he held until 2002. He then served as the presiding judge on the Texas Twelfth District Court of Appeals until 2003 after Governor Rick Perry ruled him.

Louis Gohmert has three daughters with his wife, Kathy. In his private life he lives in Tyler .

Political career

Gohmert at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor (2013)

In the 2004 election , Gohmert was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first congressional constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Max Sandlin on January 3, 2005 . He is or was a member of the Justice Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources and a total of five sub-committees. Within his parliamentary group, he is a member of the Tea Party Caucus , which is close to the Tea Party movement and the right-wing conservative Freedom Caucus .

In January 2015, he unsuccessfully applied for the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives .

Positions

Louie Gohmert speaks to US soldiers in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan (2012)

Gohmert doesn't believe that climate change was caused by humans. He campaigns against laws to liberalize the law on abortion and supports further drilling for the exploration of soil deposits such as oil. The shooting rampage in Aurora in 2012 led Gohmert to the fact that America by too permissive culture from the Judeo-Christian faith removed. Gohmert was also surprised that nobody in the audience had drawn a gun to stop the gunman. In 2014 he compared activists for gay rights with National Socialists .

Web links

Commons : Louie Gohmert  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence at the Congress (English)
• Louie Gohmert in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris Good: Rep. Gohmert: Did No One Else in Aurora Theater Have a Gun? In: ABC News , July 20, 2012; Mary Beth Rogers: Turning Texas Blue. What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America's Reddest State. St. Martin's Press, New York 2016, p. 129 f.
2. ↑ Natasha Bach: Introducing Louie Gohmert's Head-Turning Theory On Gay Marriage, Nazis And Jews. In: The Huffington Post , May 9, 2014.