page_title: David Bonior
section_title: Post-congressional career
hierarchical_section_title: David Bonior / Post-congressional career
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of en:Michigan's 10th congressional district for the en:106th United States Congress, illustrating boundaries prior to redistricting in 2002.
context_page_description: David Edward Bonior is an American politician from the US state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority and minority, making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively. During his tenure in office, Bonior was the public face of Democratic opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, and was known for his tenacity in opposing Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, against whom Bonior filed more than seventy-five ethics charges.
context_section_description: Following his retirement from the House, Bonior became a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University, and founded American Rights at Work, a union advocacy organization of which he currently serves as chairman. In 2006, former Senator John Edwards chose Bonior to run his campaign for the presidency in 2008. Bonior served as campaign manager for the duration of Edwards' candidacy.  Upon the election of Barack Obama in November 2008, Bonior was a member of the President-Elect's economic advisory board.
  He has also become a restaurateur, owning and operating the restaurants Agua 301 and Zest.
  Bonior is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.
  Bonior and his wife were described as "longtime" members of the Democratic Socialists of America in 2015.
caption: Bonior's Congressional District from 1993 to 2003
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