district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party profession preceded term birth_date spouse article_title state name
29th 34th 36th john j. lafalce stan lundine henry p. smith iii 30 august 2004 winchester , virginia cuero , texas republican lawyer gerald b. h. solomon john h. terry john taber january january 3 , 1973 -- january 3 , 1983 january 3 3 , 1963 -- january 3 , 1973 , 1983 -- january 3 , 1993 december 9 , 1919 marjorie flood horton wilcox horton -lrb- div . -rrb- ; nancy frank horton -lrb- new york politician -rrb-
 new york new york new york frank j. horton
frank horton -lrb- new york politician -rrb-

frank jefferson horton -lrb- december 12 , 1919 -- august 30 , 2004 -rrb- was a united states representative from new york state .
horton was born in cuero , texas and was a graduate of louisiana state university -lrb- b.a. , 1941 -rrb- where he was a member of the kappa sigma fraternity -lrb- `` gamma '' chapter -rrb- .
he enlisted in the u.s. army in 1941 and served until the end of world war ii .
he then attended cornell law school in ithaca , new york and received a bachelor of laws in 1947 , the same year that he was admitted to the new york bar .
horton was a member of the rochester city council from 1955 to 1961 .
from 1956 to 1962 he was the president of rochester community baseball , inc. .
from 1959 to 1961 , horton served as the executive vice president of the international baseball league , as well as the league 's attorney .
elected to the house of representatives in 1962 as a republican , horton was re-elected to 14 additional terms .
horton was known as a moderate , a rockefeller republican and `` the least partisan of representatives . ''
he rose to the position of ranking minority member of the government operations committee -lrb- now known as the united states house committee on oversight and government reform . -rrb-
horton retired from congress in 1993 when redistricting placed him in the same district as his friend rep. louise slaughter .
while in congress , horton proposed making the united states environmental protection agency a cabinet-level agency and helped introduce the whistleblower protection act in 1987 .
