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John Patrick "Jack" Murtha, Jr. (pronounced /ˈmɜrθə/; June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010.[2][3][4][5] The district stretches southwest from Johnstown, the largest city in the district and Murtha's hometown.[6]
A former Marine Corps officer, Murtha was the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A member of the Pennsylvania House from 1969 to 1974, in 1974 he narrowly won the special election held to choose the successor to the incumbent, who died in office. In the first decade of the 21st century, Murtha has been best known for his calls for a withdrawal of American forces in Iraq, as well as questions about his ethics.[7]
In 2006, after the Democrats won control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections he made a failed bid to be elected House Majority Leader for the 110th Congress (2007–2009) with the open support of the new House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.[8][9] He lost to Steny Hoyer of Maryland.[10] After this defeat, Murtha became chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. He had previously chaired this subcommittee from 1989 to 1995 and served as its ranking Democrat from 1995 to 2007.
Murtha was born into an Irish-American family in New Martinsville, West Virginia, near the border with Ohio and Pennsylvania, and grew up in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a largely suburban county east of Pittsburgh.
As a youth, he became an Eagle Scout. He also worked delivering newspapers and at a gas station before graduating from The Kiski School, an all-male boarding school in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.
Murtha left Washington and Jefferson College in 1952 to join the Marine Corps and was awarded the American Spirit Honor Medal for displaying outstanding leadership qualities during training. He became a drill instructor at Parris Island and was selected for Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. He was then assigned to the Second Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
steny's doing his job given the lionization of jack murtha as a lightning rod for antiwar sentiment in recent months, and the demonization of house democratic whip steny hoyer by people like purge-me ...
I guess he thinks they'll fit in just fine with the rednecks and racists there. At least they aren't cold blooded murders like those Marines in Fallujah. Or something. Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., says he'd be willing to house prisoners ...
... doing his job given the lionization of jack murtha as a lightning rod for antiwar sentiment in recent months, and the demonization of house democratic whip steny hoyer by people like purge-me ... jamesnews.blogster.com/jack_mu rtha.html.
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