Education
University of Kent; University of Texas at Austin.
United States representative politician member of the Texas House of Representatives
University of Kent; University of Texas at Austin.
He was elected as a Democrat to the 98th United States Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses. He served from January 3, 1983 until January 3, 1997. He was not a candidate for re-election to the 105th United States Congress.
He was implicated in the House banking scandal in 1992 but was reelected following receipt of a letter of no wrongdoing from the Department of Justice. Ronald D. Coleman at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
In Congress he was a member of the House Appropriations Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and the Select Committee on Intelligence.