Tom Marino

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Tom Marino (2011)

Thomas Anthony "Tom" Marino (* 13. August 1952 in Williamsport , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2011 to 2019 he represented the northeast of the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives , most recently in the 12th Congressional electoral district . He switched to the private sector on January 23, 2019.

Family, education and work

Tom Marino attended Williamsport Area Community College until 1983 and then Lycoming College until 1985 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession. He was also a manager at a craft business. Between 1992 and 2002 he served as the district attorney in Lycoming County ; from 2002 to 2007 he was a federal attorney for the central part of the state of Pennsylvania.

Tom Marino is married and has two children. The family lives in Lycoming Township in the north-central part of the state, bordering Williamsport .

Political career

In the 2010 congressional election , Marino was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 10th constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Chris Carney on January 3, 2011 . Since he was re-elected in all elections including 2016 , his mandate runs until January 3, 2019. In Congress, he is or was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee , the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security, as well as eight sub-committees.

In September 2017, US President Donald Trump nominated Marino as chairman of the Office of National Drug Control Policy . After Marino's connections to the pharmaceutical lobby were discussed, he withdrew his application on October 17, 2017 and stayed in Congress. Together with Orrin Hatch, Marino is an important supporter of the pharmaceutical industry . In the summer of 2016, according to press research, he was a key figure in enforcing a law that made it almost impossible for the DEA to prevent suspicious deliveries of large quantities of prescription narcotics in the US narcotics epidemic .

After the Pennsylvania constituency reorganization, he ran in the 2018 election in the twelfth district. He prevailed against the democrat Marc Friedenberg with 66.0% of the vote. His mandate began on January 3, 2019. On January 17, 2019, Marino announced that he would be giving up his mandate on January 23 and switching to the private sector. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf set the date for a by-election for May 21, 2019. Friedenberg has announced that he will run for this seat, which is structurally strongly republican by the electorate. In the election, Republican Fred Keller was chosen as Marino's successor.

Web links

Commons : Tom Marino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bill Chappell: Tom Marino, Trump's Pick As Drug Czar, Withdraws After Damaging Opioid Report. In: National Public Radio , October 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Scott Higham, Lenny Bernstein: The drug industry's triumph over the DEA. In: The Washington Post , October 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ Tom Marino - Ballotpedia . In: Ballotpedia . ( ballotpedia.org [accessed December 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Michael Burke: GOP Rep. Tom Marino resigns from Congress. January 17, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Chris Mills Rodrigo: Pennsylvania governor sets special election date for GOP Marino's seat. In: The Hill , January 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Marino, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marino, Thomas Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Williamsport , Pennsylvania