Jon Porter

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Jon Christopher Porter (born May 16 1955), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, the first representative elected from the 3rd Congressional district of Nevada. (map)

He was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, attended Briar Cliff College, and worked in his family business before being elected to the Boulder City, Nevada, City Council in 1983, and in the same year becoming an agent for Farmer's Insurance. He was elected Mayor of Boulder City in 1987 and served in that capacity until 1991. Porter served in the Nevada State Senate from 1994 to 2002, when he was elected to the House to represent Nevada's newly created Third District, that encompass roughly Las Vegas suburbs, a result of rapid growth in the southern part of the state. He is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce. He is the chairman of the Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, which belongs to the full House Government Reform Committee.

Porter is a member of the moderate/liberal Republican Main Street Partnership and supports Stem-Cell Research.

In December, 2005, Porter joined with several other Congressmen to form the Second Amendments, a bipartisan rock and country band set to play for United States troops stationed overseas over the Holiday season. He'll play keyboards.

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