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DEFAZIO, Peter Anthony
About this object
1947–
Concise Biography
DEFAZIO, Peter Anthony, A Representative from Oregon; born in Needham, Norfolk County, Mass., May 27, 1947; graduated from Needham High School, Needham, Mass., 1965; B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1969; M.A., University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg., 1977; United States Air Force Reserve, 1967-1971; staff, United States Representative James Howard Weaver of Oregon, 1977-1982; member of the Lane County, Oreg., board of commissioners, 1983-1986, chair, 1985-1986; unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in a special primary election in 1995; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1987-January 3, 2023); chair, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in 2022.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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University of Oklahoma
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, Department of Communication
Norman, OK
Videocassettes:
1986-1988, 8 commercials on 2 videocassettes.
The commercials were used during Peter DeFazio's campaigns for the 1986 and 1988 U.S. congressional elections in District 4 of Oregon, Democratic Party.
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