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Jim Leach
James Albert Smith "Jim" Leach (born October 15, 1942) is a congressman and academic. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013〔Pogrebin, Robin, ("Rocco Landesman Confirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts" ), ''New York Times'', August 7, 2009.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=NEH Chairman Jim Leach Announces Resignation )〕 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (1977–2007).
Leach was the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He also served as the interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from September 17, 2007, to September 1, 2008, when Bill Purcell was appointed permanent director.
Previously, Leach served 30 years (1977–2007) as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing (numbered as the 1st District from 1977 to 2003). In Congress, Leach chaired the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services (1995–2001) and was a senior member of the House Committee on International Relations, serving as Chair of the Committee’s Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs (2001–2006). He also founded and served as co-chair of the Congressional Humanities Caucus.〔 He lost his 2006 re-election bid to Democrat Dave Loebsack. Leach sponsored the 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, a notable piece of banking legislation of the 20th century.
==Early life and career==
Leach was born in Davenport, Iowa, and won the 1960 state wrestling championship at the 138-pound weight class for Davenport High School.〔gbhofinductions_03, ''wrestlingmuseum.org''. Site has no content.〕 He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics from Princeton University in 1964, where he became a member of The Ivy Club, and a Master of Arts degree in Soviet studies from Johns Hopkins University in 1966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Arena Profile: James A. Leach )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Obama taps Leach ’64 to chair NEH )〕 He later did further Soviet research at the London School of Economics, where he studied under Leonard Schapiro, the foremost expert on Soviet affairs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =111th Congress Report HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 111-31 JAMES A. LEACH UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE )〕 Prior to entering the United States Foreign Service, he was a staffer for then U.S. Rep. Donald Rumsfeld.〔 In 1969, he was an assistant to Rumsfeld, who had left his Congressional seat to become Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon administration.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Iowa: Second District Rep. Jim Leach (R) )〕 While in the Foreign Service, he was a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference and the U.N. General Assembly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title ="Jim Leach Rally, Bettendorf, Iowa, October 21, 1976" of the Frances K. Pullen Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. )〕 In 1973, Leach resigned his commission in protest of the Saturday Night Massacre when Richard Nixon fired his Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and the independent counsel investigating the Watergate break-in, Archibald Cox.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =voices.yahoo.com/ )〕
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