Matt Cartwright

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Matt Cartwright (2013)

Matthew "Matt" A. Cartwright (born May 1, 1961 in Erie , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician with the Democratic Party . Since 2013 he has represented Northeast Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Matt Cartwright attended Upper Canada College in Toronto until 1979 . He then studied at Hamilton College in Clinton ( New York ) until 1986 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his admission as a lawyer in 1986, he began to work in this profession. In the meantime he studied in 1981 at the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he met his future wife Marion. Both worked for the Scranton area law firm owned by his wife's family ( Munley, Munley and Cartwright ). The company specialized in consumer affairs.

Political career

In July 1992, Cartwright took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in New York , on which Bill Clinton was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 2012 election , Cartwright was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th  Congressional constituency in Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Tim Holden on January 3, 2013 , whom he had beaten in the Democratic primary . In the actual election in November 2012, he prevailed with 61 percent of the vote against Laureen Cummings, who was running for the Republican Party . He was re-elected in all subsequent elections. After the reorganization of the constituencies in Pennsylvania, he ran in the 2018 election in the eighth congressional constituency, which geographically largely coincides with his previous constituency. Cartwright prevailed over Republican Jon Chrin with 54.6% of the vote. His current mandate in the 116th Congress began on January 3, 2019 and ends on January 3, 2021.

In Congress, Cartwright is or was a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as well as a total of four subcommittees.

Positions

Cartwright is considered a moderate to conservative Democrat. As one of twelve members of his party who represent congressional constituencies where President Trump gained a lead in 2016, he agreed to a ban on assault weapons after the attack in El Paso in August 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Matt Cartwright  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Tal Axelrod: The 12 House Dems from Trump districts who support assault weapons ban. In: The Hill , August 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cartwright, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cartwright, Matthew A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Erie , Pennsylvania