Steve Buyer

Steve Buyer (2009)

Stephen Earle "Steve" Buyer (* 26. November 1958 in Rensselaer , Jasper County , Indiana ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He was a member of the US House of Representatives for Indiana from 1993 to 2011 .

biography

After attending North White High School , he studied at The Citadel Military College from 1976 to 1980 , where he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). He then completed a postgraduate degree in law at the Law School of Valparaiso University in 1984 with a Juris Doctor (JD). After a brief stint as a lawyer , he served from 1984 to 1987 as a captain of the United States Army legal assistant in the Judge Advocate General's Corpsand then from 1987 to 1988 Deputy Attorney General of Indiana. During the military operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in the Second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 he was legal advisor to the deployed US Army. He has been a member of the US Army Reserve since 1980 and was promoted to colonel there in 2004 .

As a Republican candidate, he was elected to the US House of Representatives for the first time in 1992 and, after eight subsequent re-elections, he represented the fifth and fourth constituencies of Indiana from January 3, 1993, and from January 3, 2003, respectively . In 1998 he was one of the members appointed by the House of Representatives of the managers ultimately unsuccessful impeachment ( Impeachment ) against US President Bill Clinton . Between 2005 and 2007 he was Chairman of the US House Committee on Veterans' Affairs ; Until his departure from Congress he was the highest-ranking member of the Republican Minority Group ( Ranking Minority Member ) opposition leader in this committee. Buyer was also a member of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce .

In 2010, Buyer decided not to run again. The reason he gave was that his wife was ill; By giving up another term of office, he wanted to reduce the stress in their life together. He was succeeded in January 2011 by Todd Rokita .

Web links

• Steve Buyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Steve Buyer in the nndb (English)