Steve LaTourette
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 14th district |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Sawyer |
| Succeeded by | Dave Joyce |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 19th district |
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In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Eric Fingerhut |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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July 22, 1954 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | August 3, 2016 (aged 62) McLean, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Susan LaTourette (1982–2003) Jennifer Laptook (2003–2016) |
| Children | Sarah |
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Cleveland State University |
Steven Clare "Steve" LaTourette (July 22, 1954 – August 3, 2016) was an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 19th congressional district and then Ohio's 14th congressional district 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.
LaTourette was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Patricia Munn and Eugene LaTourette, an accountant. 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 mass murders that were organized by mass-murderer and self-proclaimed prophet, Jeffrey Lundgren.
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.
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.
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" and are reluctant even to consider raising revenues as part of a compromise to extend the debt ceiling.
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.
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