Martin Lancaster

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Martin Lancaster (1996)

Harold Martin Lancaster (born March 24, 1943 in Patetown , Wayne County , North Carolina ) is an American politician . Between 1987 and 1995 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Martin Lancaster attended public schools in Wayne County, where he grew up on a tobacco farm. He then studied until 1965 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission to the bar in 1967, he began to work for the US Navy as a military attorney . He was in active service until 1970, after which he was a member of the reserve for this branch of service until 1993. After the end of his time as a military attorney, he worked as a private lawyer in Goldsboro in 1970 . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1978 and 1986, Lancaster was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives . In the 1986 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Charles Orville Whitley on January 3, 1987 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1995 . There he was a member of the Armed Forces Committee , the Agriculture Committee, the Committee on Fisheries and the Merchant Navy, and the Committee on Small Business . In the 1994 election, Lancaster was defeated by Republican Walter B. Jones .

In 1995 he was on the Advisory Board to President Bill Clinton ; from 1996 to 1997 he was the successor to Nancy P. Dorn Deputy Secretary of the Army for the field of construction. Between 1997 and 2008 he served as President of the North Carolina Community College System . Since 2008 he has been working in Raleigh as a member of one of the largest law firms in the city.

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personal data
SURNAME Lancaster, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lancaster, Harold Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Patetown , North Carolina