Tom Lantos
Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California, serving from 1981 until his death as the representative from a district that included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwestern San Francisco. Lantos had announced in early January 2008 that he would not run for reelection because of cancer of the esophagus, but died before finishing his term. A Hungarian-American, Lantos...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 February 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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