Vince Snowbarger

Vince Snowbarger

Vincent "Vince" K. Snowbarger (born September 16, 1949 in Kankakee , Illinois ) is an American politician . Between 1997 and 1999 he represented the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Vince Snowbarger attended Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas , until 1967 . He then studied until 1971 at the Southern Nazarene University in Bethany ( Oklahoma ). Until 1974 he studied law at the University of Illinois . Snowbarger graduated from the University of Kansas in 1977 .

After completing his studies, he was a lecturer at Mid America Nazarene College between 1973 and 1977 . From 1978 to 1984 he was an advisor to the Republican Party , of which he became a member. From 1982 to 1984 he served on the town planning commission of Olathe (Illinois). Between 1985 and 1996, Snowbarger was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives .

In the 1996 congressional election, Snowbarger was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Kansas . There he took over from Jan Meyers on January 3, 1997 . In Congress , he was considered very conservative, so that he even lost the support of a few moderate Republicans in his constituency, which led to his being voted out in 1998.

During the reign of US President George W. Bush Snowbarger was deputy director and from 2006 to 2007 acting head of the Pension Agency ( Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ).

Web links

• Vince Snowbarger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)