Pete McCloskey

Pete McCloskey

Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey (born September 29, 1927 in Loma Linda , California ) is a former American politician . Between 1967 and 1983 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Pete McCloskey attended South Pasadena High School until 1945 . Between 1945 and 1947 he was a member of the United States Navy . In doing so, he made use of a further training course offered by the Navy and studied at Occidental College and the California Institute of Technology . Between 1950 and 1952 he served in the Marine Corps . Until 1974 he was a colonel in the reserve of this branch of the armed forces. After studying law at Stanford University , he was admitted to the bar in 1950. In 1953 and 1954, McCloskey was the assistant district attorney in Alameda County . He then practiced as a private lawyer. From 1964 to 1967 and again from 1988 to 1994 he taught law at Santa Clara Law School and Stanford Law School .

Politically, McCloskey joined the Republican Party . After the death of the House of Representatives J. Arthur Younger , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the eleventh seat of California , where he took up his new mandate on December 12, 1967. After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1983 . Since 1973 he represented the 17th and since 1975 the twelfth district of his state. In 1972 he sought his party's nomination as a presidential candidate. He was defeated by the incumbent President Richard Nixon . McCloskey's time as a congressman included the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair . Despite being a Republican, McCloskey was one of the first congressmen to call for impeachment proceedings against President Nixon in the Watergate affair .

In 1982 he renounced another candidacy. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . Later he was an opponent of the Iraq war . Because of this, he switched to the Democratic Party in 2007 . As early as 2004, he supported their presidential candidate John Kerry against the incumbent Republican George W. Bush . In 2006, Pete McCloskey ran unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He is married for the second time and has four children from his first marriage.

In 2000 McCloskey appeared at an event organized by the Historical Revisionist Institute for Historical Review . He is also one of the founders of the Council for the National Interest , which has existed since 1989 and which has set itself the goal of "supporting a policy in the Middle East that corresponds to US values ​​and interests", and its members have made several statements about a " Israeli apartheid ”as well as an alleged“ Israel lobby ”in the USA and some meetings with Hamas and Hezbollah representatives in the Middle East were organized.

Web links

• Pete McCloskey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)