Mike McCormack (politician)

Mike McCormack

Mike McCormack (born December 14, 1921 in Basil , Fairfield County , Ohio ) is a former American politician . Between 1971 and 1981 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mike McCormack attended public schools in Toledo . He then began studying at the University of Toledo . During the Second World War he was a lieutenant in the US Army . In 1946 he was stationed in Germany . After the war he continued his education at Washington State University in Pullman until 1948 . From 1949 to 1950 he was a lecturer at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma . Between 1950 and 1970 he worked as a research scientist.

Politically, McCormack became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1956 and 1958 he was elected to the Washington House of Representatives, where he served until 1960. Between 1960 and 1970 he was a member of the State Senate . From 1952 to 1970 he was a delegate at all regional Democratic party conventions in Washington State. In 1972 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention .

In the 1970 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of his state , where he succeeded Catherine Dean May of the Republican Party on January 3, 1971 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1981 . During this time, among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair fell . McCormack served on the science and technology committee and chaired the subcommittee on power generation and research.

In 1980 , Mike McCormack was not re-elected. In the 1980s he was a member of the Space Telescope Institute Council , which supports the work of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore . Since 1990 he has been one of the directors of the Institute for Science and Society, which he founded .

Web links

• Mike McCormack in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)