district succeeded birth_place party profession preceded term birth_date article_title state name alma_mater
10th mark kirk evanston , illinois republican attorney abner j. mikva january 22 , 1980 -- january 3 , 2001 1 june 1935 john porter -lrb- illinois politician -rrb-
 illinois john edward porter northwestern university university of michigan law school
john porter -lrb- illinois politician -rrb-

john edward porter -lrb- born june 1 , 1935 -rrb- is a former united states representative from illinois .
porter was born in evanston , illinois , was educated in public schools , and then attended massachusetts institute of technology for one year before receiving a b.s. and b.a. from northwestern university in 1957 .
he then received his juris doctor -lrb- j.d. -rrb- degree with distinction at the university of michigan law school in 1961 , and was admitted to the illinois bar that same year .
he also served in united states army reserves from 1958 to 1964 .
he served two years in the united states department of justice in the honor law graduate program from 1961 to 1963 .
he entered private practice in evanston , illinois from 1963 to 1979 .
during this time he entered politics ; first by becoming a member of the illinois house of representatives from 1973 to 1979 , then by running an unsuccessful first campaign for a seat in the ninety-sixth united states congress in 1978 against representative abner j. mikva .
when mikva resigned from congress in 1979 , porter won a special election to succeed him and continued to serve for the next ten congresses .
he was a representative in total from january 22 , 1980 to until his retirement on january 3 , 2001 .
a moderate republican , he served as a founder and co-chair for the congressional human rights caucus for 18 years and oversaw budget appropriations for all federal health and education programs and agencies , including nih , cdc and ahrq .
currently he is a partner of the law firm hogan lovells and serves as chairman of -lsb- http://www.researchamerica.org research !
america , vice chair of the foundation for the national institutes of health .
he is a member of the boards of the pbs foundation and the first focus campaign for children -lsb- http://www.firstfocus.net/aboutfirstfocus.aspx?id=4368] , and a trustee for the brookings institution .
porter is a member of the institute of medicine of the national academy of sciences , the bretton woods committee , the interamerican dialogue and council for foreign relations .
previously , he was chairman of pbs and served on the boards of the rand corporation , the american heart association and the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts .
