About Steve LaTourette
Steven Clare LaTourette was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 19th congressional district and then Ohio's 14th congressional district from 1995 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. On July 30, 2012, it was reported that he would retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election. He subsequently co-founded a lobbying firm. The LaTourette family were French Huguenots who fled persecution in the 1600s and first settled in Staten Island, New York. In mid-2014 LaTourette discovered that he had pancreatic cancer. The PAC was created to curb the influence of the Tea Party movement in the Republican Party.
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