Steve Stockman

Steve Stockman

Stephen E. "Steve" Stockman (* 14. November 1956 in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Between 1995 and 1997 and from 2013 to 2015 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Steve Stockman attended Dondero High School and studied at the University of Houston until 1990 . After that he worked as an accountant. At the same time he embarked on a political career.

In the 1994 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth congressional electoral district of Texas , where he succeeded Jack Brooks on January 3, 1995 . Two years earlier he had run for the first time against the Democrat , who had been in office since 1953, but was still inferior to him at the time. Since Stockman was not confirmed in 1996, he could initially only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1997 . There he set a new record of initiatives during a legislative period with 21 own bills of his own and 241 community bills.

In 1998 he applied unsuccessfully in his party's primary election for a post on the State Railway Commission. In 2006 an attempt to return to Congress as an independent candidate failed. In the spring of 2012, Stockman ran as a candidate for the Republican Party's congressional primaries that year. He prevailed in the newly established 36th District of Texas and was thus able to return to the House of Representatives on January 3, 2013. He waived re-election in 2014; Instead, he challenged the Republican US Senator John Cornyn in his party's primary, but was defeated and had to leave Congress on January 3, 2015. His seat was again a Republican, Brian Babin .

In November 2018, Stockman was sentenced to ten years in prison, among other things for spying on a political rival and for alienating $ 1.25 million from political donations for private purposes.

Web links

Commons : Steve Stockman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

supporting documents

1. ↑ Gabrielle Banks: Ex-Congressman Steve Stockman gets 10 years in fraud case. In: Houston Chronicle , November 8, 2018.