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Robert Jan "Bob" Mrazek (born November 6, 1945) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 3rd congressional district on Long Island for most of the 1980s. Also an author, he has written works of military fiction and non-fiction, set in the time periods of the American Civil War and World War II. ==Biography== Mrazek grew up in Huntington, New York, graduating from Cornell University (1967). He joined the United States Navy to serve in the Vietnam War, but was disabled by a training injury at Officer Candidate School in Newport. After a period of hospitalization with wounded Marines, he turned against the war.〔 〕 After his 1968 discharge, he was an aide to U.S. Senator Vance Hartke (1969–1971).〔 "Robert J. Mrazek." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Entry updated: 05/29/2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed 2009-08-23. 〕 He was elected to the Suffolk County Legislature, 1975–1982 and became its minority leader. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1980, 1988, and 1992. Democrat Mrazek was first elected in 1982 to the 98th United States Congress, defeating John LeBoutillier,〔 〕 a one-term Conservative Republican Congressman in the 3rd district. (The districts had been redrawn to reflect the 1980 U.S. Census.) Freshman members usually do not sit on the House Appropriations Committee, but Mrazek persuaded Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill to make an exception for him.〔 〕 After being elected to his fifth term in Congress, Mrazek announced that he would not stand for re-election, choosing instead to explore a run for the United States Senate in 1992. He abandoned this race after being swept up along with hundreds of other members of Congress implicated in the House banking scandal. Mrazek served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until he retired in 1993. 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「Robert J. Mrazek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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