Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter Lantos (born
February 1 1928),
American politician, has been a
Democratic member of the
United States House of Representatives since
1981, representing the 13th District of
California. He was born in
Budapest,
Hungary, and was part of an anti-
Nazi resistance movement during the
German occupation of that country. He is the only
Holocaust survivor serving in the House. Upon immigrating to the
United States, he attended the
University of Washington (PhD
1950) and the
University of California, Berkeley and was a professor of economics, a television journalist, an administrative assistant, and an economic and foreign policy adviser to the
United States Senate before entering the House.
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