Steve LaTourette

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Steve LaTourette
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 14th district
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013
Preceded by Tom Sawyer
Succeeded by David Joyce
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 19th district
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by Eric Fingerhut
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1954-07-22) July 22, 1954 (age 58)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Susan LaTourette (1982-2003, Divorced) Jennifer Laptook (2003-Current)
Alma mater University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Cleveland State University

Steven C. "Steve" LaTourette (born July 22, 1954) was the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 19th congressional district and then Ohio's 14th congressional district, serving from 1995-2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. On July 30, 2012, it was reported that he would retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election.

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Early life, education and career[edit]

LaTourette was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Patricia Munn and Eugene LaTourette, an accountant.[1] A graduate of Cleveland Heights High School (1972) and the University of Michigan, LaTourette studied law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.

After a stint as a public defender, LaTourette was elected the County Prosecutor of Lake County, Ohio and served from 1989 to 1995. There, he made his name prosecuting the Kirtland serial murders that were organized by mass-murderer and self-proclaimed prophet, Jeffrey Lundgren.

U.S. House of Representatives[edit]

Committee assignments[edit]

LaTourette is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership. In 2006 LaTourette co-authored the Financial Data Protection Act of 2006, which sought to unify state and federal laws on banking and privacy and ease the burden of patchwork legislation.

Positions[edit]

On Thursday, March 17, 2011 LaTourette became one of only seven Republicans who voted "NO" on a measure introduced in the US House of Representatives to strip all government funding from NPR.[2]

In a meeting with transit advocates, LaTourette disparaged fellow legislators, referring to them as "knuckledraggers that came in in the last election that hate taxes," due to their reluctance to even consider revenue as part of a compromise to extend the debt ceiling.[3][4]

On June 28, 2012, LaTourette was one of only two Republicans (along with Scott Rigell of Virginia) who voted against a motion to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress, though he did vote to bring civil charges against Holder, for his handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.[5]

Political campaigns[edit]

1994[edit]

LaTourette was elected to the House in 1994 in the wave of Republican successes in that year, defeating incumbent Eric Fingerhut. LaTourette served the 19th district of Ohio from 1995 to 2003. After another district was eliminated in the round of redistricting following the 2000 Census, LaTourette's district was renumbered to the 14th district of Ohio, where he represented the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, northeastern Summit County, northern Trumbull County, northern Portage County, Ashtabula County, Lake County, and Geauga County.

2008[edit]

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, 2008#District 14

2010[edit]

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, 2010#District 14*

LaTourette defeated Democratic nominee and former Appellate Court judge Bill O'Neill in the general election, along with Libertarian nominee and accountant John Jelenic.

2012[edit]

On July 30, 2012 it was reported that LaTourette would retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election.[6]

Electoral history[edit]

Ohio's 19th congressional district: Results 1994–2000[7]
Year Democratic Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
1994 Eric Fingerhut 89,701 43% Steven C. LaTourette 99,997 48% Ronald Young Independent 11,364 6% Jerome Brentar Independent 5,180 3%
1996 Thomas Coyne, Jr. 101,152 41% Steven C. LaTourette 135,012 55% Thomas Martin Natural Law 10,655 4%
1998 Elizabeth Kelley 64,090 34% Steven C. LaTourette 126,786 66%
2000 Dale V. Blanchard 101,842 32% Steven C. LaTourette 206,639 65% Sid Stone Libertarian 10,367 3%
Ohio's 14th congressional district: Results 2002–2006[7]
Year Democratic Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
2002 Dale V. Blanchard 51,846 28% Steven C. LaTourette 134,413 72% *
2004 Capri S. Cafaro 119,714 37% Steven C. LaTourette 201,652 63%
2006 Lewis R. Katz 97,753 39% Steven C. LaTourette 144,069 58% Werner J. Lange Nonpartisan 8,500 3%
2008 William O'Neill 125,214 38.74% Steven C. LaTourette 188,488 58.32% David Macko Libertarian 9,511 [8] 2.94%
2010 William O'Neill 72,604 31% Steven C. LaTourette 149,878 65% John Jelenic Libertarian 8,383 3.6%
*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 2002, Sid Stone received 113 votes.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/fashion/weddings/20lapt.html?_r=0
  2. ^ http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll192.xml
  3. ^ http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/03/16/rep-latourette-tells-transit-advocates-to-ask-congress-for-what-they-need/
  4. ^ Obama’s Big and Quiet Transformation Feb 7, 2013 New York Review of Books
  5. ^ http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/2/441
  6. ^ http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/07/rep_steve_latourette_to_retire.html
  7. ^ a b "Election Statistics". Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 
  8. ^ Federal Elections 2008. Federal Elections Commission, Washington DC, July 2009

External links[edit]

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