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Walter Leslie "Les" AuCoin ( ; born October 21, 1942), is an American politician and the first from the Democratic Party to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from , since it was formed in 1882. The seat has been held by Democrats ever since.〔(Official database of U.S. Congress )〕 AuCoin’s 18-year tenure—from the 94th United States Congress through the 102nd〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Congress )〕—is the sixth-longest in Oregon history. In his career, AuCoin took a prominent role in abortion rights, local and national environmental issues,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=October 8, 2009 )〕 multiple use management of federal forests, and national security. During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, he wrote the ban to stop Interior Secretary James Watt's plan to open the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf to oil exploration. AuCoin was an early advocate of diplomatic relations with The People's Republic of China〔"To amend and extend the Export-Import Bank act of 1945”: hearings the House Subcommittee on International Trade, Investment, and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session on H.R. 11384, March 13, 15-17, 1978〕 and arms control with the Soviet Union, and a critic of U.S. support for the Nicaraguan Contras and the rightist government of El Salvador in the 1980s.〔House Committee Hearings by Date, Digest, Congressional Record, 101st Congress, January 23, 1990-January 3, 1991.〕 At the time of his retirement in 1993, he was 84th in overall House seniority, dean of the Oregon House delegation, a majority whip-at-large, and a veteran member of the House Appropriations Committee. AuCoin previously was a two-term member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1971–1974). In his second term, he was House Majority Leader, at the age of 31. He is a full-time author, writer, lecturer and occasional blogger. He and his wife, Susan live in Bozeman, Montana. ==Early life== AuCoin was born in Portland, Oregon, on October 21, 1942, to Francis Edgar AuCoin, a short order cook from Portland, Maine, and Alice Audrey Darrar, a waitress from Madras, Oregon. When he was four, his father abandoned the family. Les and his brother Leland moved with their mother to Redmond, Oregon, then a small Central Oregon sawmill and farming town,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ohs.org/the-oregon-history-project/narratives/central-oregon-arid-landscape/ )〕 living on her restaurant wages and tips.〔 AuCoin attended Redmond High School, where he was elected most valuable player on the school's basketball team. He also joined the staff of the school newspaper, where he discovered an aptitude for writing—a skill that would help propel him into journalism, Congress and, in political retirement, life as a writer.〔 In 1960, he became the first male in his extended family to graduate from high school.〔 AuCoin enrolled at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, then transferred to Portland State University.〔 In 1961, he enlisted in the United States Army. He was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division and the 10th Mountain Division where he served as a public information specialist, writing dispatches to ''The Nashville Banner'', the Louisville ''Courier-Journal'', The Nashville ''Tennessean'', ''Stars and Stripes'', and ''Army Times'', among other publications.〔 〕 AuCoin's Army postings included Fort Ord, California; Fort Slocum, New York; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Fort Benning, Georgia; and Sullivan Barracks, West Germany. While stationed in the segregated South, AuCoin was caught up in a near race riot in reaction to a sit-in by blacks at an all-white lunch counter, an event that crystallized his zeal for progressive politics.〔 Following his Army career, AuCoin worked for one summer at ''The Redmond Spokesman'' newspaper, then returned to Pacific University, where he was hired as the director of the school's public information department〔〔 and simultaneously completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1969.〔 He married Sue Swearingen in 1964, and the couple had two children: Stacy in 1965 and Kelly in 1967.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Les AuCoin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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