Steve LaTourette

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Steven Clare LaTourette (July 22, 1954 – August 3, 2016) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Template:Ushr and then Template:Ushr from 1995 to 2013. He was 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. He subsequently co-founded a lobbying firm.[1]

Early life, education and career

LaTourette was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Patricia Munn and Eugene LaTourette, an accountant.[2] The LaTourette family were French Huguenots who fled persecution in the 1600s and first settled in Staten Island, New York.

A graduate of Cleveland Heights High School (1972) and the University of Michigan, LaTourette studied law at the Cleveland State University College of Law.

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 mass murders that were organized by mass-murderer and self-proclaimed prophet, Jeffrey Lundgren.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

LaTourette was 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

In 1997, LaTourette sponsored H.R. 1151, a law that among other things exempted credit unions chartered for the purpose of making, or had a history of primarily making, member business loans, from certain regulatory restrictions. The effect of the deregulatory change was to increase risky lending to taxi companies, helping temporarily drive up the price of taxi licenses before eventually resulting in large credit union losses and hundreds of bankruptcies.[3][4]

LaTourette had voted to impeach Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky scandal while he himself was having a long-term affair with his chief of staff, Jennifer Laptook.[5]

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.[6]

In a meeting with transit advocates, LaTourette disparaged fellow legislators, referring to them as "knuckledraggers that came in during the last election that hate taxes" and are reluctant even to consider raising revenues as part of a compromise to extend the debt ceiling.[7][8]

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.[9][10]

Political campaigns

1994

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

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2010

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". 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

On July 30, 2012, it was reported that LaTourette would retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election.[11]

Electoral history

Template:Ushr: Results 1994–2000[12]
Year Republican Votes Pct Democratic Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
1994 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |99,997 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |48% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Eric Fingerhut style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |89,701 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |43% Template:Party shading/Independent |Ronald Young Template:Party shading/Independent |Independent Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |11,364 Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |6% Template:Party shading/Independent |Jerome Brentar Template:Party shading/Independent |Independent Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |5,180 Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |3%
1996 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |135,012 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |55% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Thomas Coyne Jr. style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |101,152 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |41% Template:Party shading/Independent |Thomas Martin Template:Party shading/Independent |Natural Law Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |10,655 Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |4%
1998 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |126,786 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |66% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Elizabeth Kelley style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |64,090 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |34%
2000 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |206,639 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |65% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Dale V. Blanchard style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |101,842 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |32% style="background:Template:Party color" |Sid Stone style="background:Template:Party color" |Libertarian style="background:Template:Party color" align="right" |10,367 style="background:Template:Party color" align="right" |3%
Template:Ushr: Results 2002–2006[12]
Year Republican Votes Pct Democratic Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
2002 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |134,413 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |72% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Dale V. Blanchard style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |51,846 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |28% *
2004 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |201,652 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |63% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Capri Cafaro style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |119,714 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |37%
2006 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |144,069 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |58% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Lewis R. Katz style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |97,753 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |39% Template:Party shading/Independent |Werner J. Lange Template:Party shading/Independent |Nonpartisan Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |8,500 Template:Party shading/Independent align="right" |3%
2008 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" | 188,488 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |58% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |William O'Neill style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" | 125,214 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |39% style="background:Template:Party color" |David Macko style="background:Template:Party color" |Libertarian style="background:Template:Party color" align="right" |9,511 [13] style="background:Template:Party color" align="right" |3%
2010 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Steven C. LaTourette style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |149,878 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |65% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |William O'Neill style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" align="right" |72,604 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |31% style="background:Template:Party color" |John Jelenic style="background:Template:Party color" |Libertarian style="background:Template:Party color" align="right" |8,383 style="background:Template:Party color" align="right" |4%

Template:RefbeginWrite-in and minor candidate notes: In 2002, Sid Stone received 113 votes. Template:Refend

Post-congressional career

LaTourette established a Super PAC, Defending Main Street. The PAC was created to curb the influence of the Tea Party movement in the Republican Party.[14]

Despite his previous opposition to same-sex marriage, in 2015, LaTourette signed a Supreme Court brief to support the overturn of state bans on the practice.[15]

Illness and death

In mid-2014 LaTourette discovered that he had pancreatic cancer. Consequently, he filed a claim in May 2015 against the Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress citing a lack of information in that regard when he was observed earlier.[16] LaTourette died on August 3, 2016, from pancreatic cancer, aged 62.[17]

See also

References

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