Background
Wortley was born in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Syracuse University in 1948.
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George Cornelius
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Education
Syracuse University.
Career
Wortley was a brother of the Gamma-Iota chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He was elected to Congress in 1980 and served from January 3, 1981 until January 3, 1989. He also served on the House Ethics and Select Aging Committees.
He was instrumental in the development and passage of legislation enacting the first program to provide Reverse Mortgages to seniors.
He was a Director of Dierman, Wortley & Zola, Incorporated. (DWZ) and Washington Solutions, consultants on public policy and financial strategies.
He also served on the Advisory Board of National Security Studies, a United States. Department of Defense Executive Development program He served as a Senior Policy Advisor with The Carmen Group and the Financial Institutions Services Corporation
(FISC). Prior to his government service, he was President of the Manlius Publishing Corporation, a publisher of seven weekly newspapers in Upstate New New York
He continued in that capacity until their sale in 1992. He has served on numerous civic, state and national boards and foundations. He also served on the board of Project Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as well as the Kings Point’s Government Affairs Council.
His business and Congressional responsibilities took him to 35 nations.
He served in the Merchant Marine Reserve and the United States Naval Reserve during World World War II, with sea duty in the North Atlantic, Pacific and Philippine theaters of operation. Wortley died at a hospice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2014.
He was 87. He was later buried at Congressional Cemetery in Washington.
Membership
He was the leading minority member of the House Banking Finance and Urban Affairs Committee and was actively involved in working with European, Latin American and Pacific Rim leaders on financial and development bank matters. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Bank of New York for five years and its successor, Norstar Bank.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party