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Tony Coelho
Anthony Lee "Tony" Coelho (born June 15, 1942) is an American politician. He is a former United States congressman from California, and primary sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He is a former chairman, and current member of the Epilepsy Foundation's national board of directors.
==Education and early career==
Coelho was born in rural Los Banos, California, to parents of Portuguese descent,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.portuguesefoundation.org/famous.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Portuguese-Americans.html )〕 attended public schools in nearby Dos Palos, and grew up working on his family’s dairy farm. At age 15, Coelho was injured in a pickup truck accident, which doctors later suggested was the precipitating event for the onset of his epilepsy. For years after the accident, Coelho did not know he had the illness.
Coelho graduated with a B.A. from Loyola University of Los Angeles (now Loyola Marymount University) in 1964. At Loyola, he was initiated as a brother in Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and a member of the prestigious Crimson Circle, and later was elected Student Body President during his senior year.
After the Kennedy assassination, Coelho decided to become a priest.〔'Why Tony Coelho fights for the disabled: epilepsy kept him from Vietnam and the Jesuits,' The National Catholic Reporter, January 20, 1995.〕 He went to a doctor for a medical exam, a prerequisite for entering into the seminary. The doctor informed him that he had epilepsy. Because of canon law, he was unable to become a priest. Once the diagnosis was reported to the state, Coelho lost both his driver's license and his health insurance.
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