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Tom Lantos' Biography

Deceased

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Full Name:

Tom Lantos

Gender:

Male

Family:

Wife: Annette Tilemann; 2 Children, Annette, Katrina

Birth Date:

02/01/1928

Birth Place:

Budapest, Hungary

Home City:

San Mateo, CA

Religion:

Jewish

PhD, Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1953

BA, Economics, University of Washington, 1950

MA, Economics, University of Washington, 1950

Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1981-2008

President, Millbrau Board of Education, 1960-1961, 1965-1966

Founder, Co Chair, Congressional Human Rights Caucus

Co Chair, Congressional Friends of Animals

Vice Chair, Congressional Study Group on China

Co Chair, Congressional Task Force Against Anti-Semitism

Experience, Democratic Homeland Security Task Force

Experience, National Guard and Reserve Component Organization

Experience, Administrative Asstistant

Experience, Business Advisor

Commentator, News Analyst

Professor of Economics, San Francisco State University

Economic and Foreign Policy Adviser, United States Senate

Congressional Aide, United States Senate

Experience, Anti Communist Student Movement

Anti Nazi and Anti Communist Underground, WWII

Astrological Sign:

Aquarius

Awards:

-Baltic Democracy Award, Joint Baltic American National Committee, 2003
-B'nai B'rith International Award, 2002
-Community Health Super Hero Award, National Association of Community Centers Inc. and Health Centers, State of California, 2002
-Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Brigham Young University, 2001
-Tree of Life Award, Jewish National Fund, 2001
-National Parks Conservation Association, Friend of the National Parks, National Parks Conservation Association, 106th Congress (1999-2000) and 107th Congress (2001-2001)
-Louis B. Sohn Award, United Nations Association for Human Rights, 2001
-People of All Faiths Certificate of Appreciation, Vietnamese-American Community, 2001
-Mori Point Hero, Pacifica Land Trust and Trust for Public Land, 2000
-Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Support of Lesbian and Gay Human Rights, San Francisco Chapter of the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, 2000

Number of Grandchildren:

17

Publications:

Western Foreign Policy Toward Eastern Europe (N.p., 1995)
-With Elizabeth Skoglund and Annette Lantos, A Quiet Courage: Per Anger, Wallenberg's Co-Liberator of Hungarian Jews (Baker Book House, 1997)

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