Tom Petri

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Tom Petri

Thomas Evert "Tom" Petri (born May 28, 1940 in Marinette , Marinette County , Wisconsin ) is an American politician . Between 1979 and 2015 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tom Petri attended Lowell P. Goodrich High School in Fond du Lac until 1958 . He then studied at Harvard University until 1962 . He then studied law at the same university until 1965. He then worked in the office of Federal Judge James Edward Doyle , who was responsible for western Wisconsin. He then worked as a private lawyer. From 1966 to 1967 Petri was a volunteer in the Peace Corps . From 1969 to 1970 he was on the staff of the White House .

Politically, Petri joined the Republican Party . Between 1973 and 1979 he was a member of the Wisconsin Senate . Since 1973 he has been a delegate at all regional republican party conventions. In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate , losing to incumbent Gaylord Nelson . After the death of MP William A. Steiger , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the sixth seat of Wisconsin , where he took up his new mandate on April 3, 1979. After being confirmed in all subsequent elections, he can continue to exercise his mandate today. Since he was re-elected in the 2010 congressional elections with 71% of the vote, he will take up another two-year term in Congress on January 3, 2011.

He was a member of the Education and Working Committee, the Transport and Infrastructure Committee and a total of four sub-committees. During the primaries for the 2008 presidential election , Petri supported Mitt Romney . After John McCain was nominated , he supported his unsuccessful election campaign for the presidency. Tom Petri is married to Anne Neal. The family lives in Fond Du Lac. In 2014 Tom Petri decided not to run again and therefore left the congress on January 3, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Petri, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petri, Thomas Evert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Marinette , Wisconsin