About Peter King (American politician)
Peter Thomas King (born April 5, 1944) is an American former politician and novelist who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he represented a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County and was numbered as the 3rd and later the 2nd district. King was formerly chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security. He stepped down because of Republican conference term limits, but remained a member of the committee. On November 11, 2019, King announced he would not seek re-election in the 2020 elections and would retire after his current term expired. He resigned from the Financial Services Committee on January 15, 2020. King also previously served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. King's professional papers are held at the University of Notre Dame Archives. King ran for attorney general of New York in 1986, and won the Republican primary after Ulster County District Attorney E. King was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1992. Despite being outspent 5-to-1, King won 49.6% to 46.5%. Although King was outspent in those races, he won by double-digit margins.
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