A Representative from Virginia. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. , January 30, 1939. Attended the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss. , 1957-1958. B. A. , Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa. , 1961. LL. B. , Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D. C. , 1965. United States Army Reserve, 1962-1967. Lawyer, private practice. Staff, United States Representative Edward G. Biester, Jr. , of Pennsylvania, 1968-1971. Staff, United States Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton, 1971-1974. Deputy assistant secretary, United States Department of the Interior, 1974-1975. Unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States House of Representative in 1976. Unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States House of Representative in 1978. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 2015). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress in 2014.