His father was a longtime Congressman holding a key seat on the powerful House Military Affairs Committee.

The telephone would not stop ringing in the office of Jim Leach, the longtime Congressman from Iowa.

A longtime Democratic Congressman from Indiana and a former president of New York University, he knows how to play politics.

Now he describes himself as a "Chris Shays Republican," citing the longtime congressman who also happens to live in Black Rock.

A longtime congressman from New Jersey, Mr. Courter alone will have to lend the board its political gravitas.

"The poll also indicates Paul statistically tied with Obama, with the president at 48% and the longtime congressman at 46%," reports CNN.

Last year, he was one of several unsuccessful candidates to succeed Representative Joseph P. Addabbo in a special election after the death of the longtime Congressman.

Mr. Panetta, who was also Mr. Clinton's budget director and a longtime Congressman from California, said he was personally disappointed in the President.

C1 Business Digest D1 Obituaries D13 Jamie Whitten, longtime Congressman from Mississippi.

The city's longtime Congressman, L. Mendel Rivers, had poured Pentagon dollars into the city for decades; his slogan was, "Rivers Delivers."