1. John LeBoutillier was born on May 26,1953 and is an American political columnist, pundit, and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
15 Facts About John LeBoutillier
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John LeBoutillier was elected to Congress in 1980, representing New York's 6th District.
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John LeBoutillier defeated 16-year incumbent Lester L Wolff to become the youngest member of the 97th Congress.
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In 1983, John LeBoutillier was fined $7,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating federal election laws during the course of his 1980 congressional campaign.
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John LeBoutillier founded the Sky Hook II Project, dedicated to recovering living American POWs in Southeast Asia.
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John LeBoutillier has made trips to Laos and Vietnam and met with Lao and Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, New York City, Vientiane, and Paris.
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John LeBoutillier was a frequent guest on radio and television and had hosted radio talk show programs on WMCA radio and WABC radio.
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John LeBoutillier conducted an exclusive television interview with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for NBC's Tomorrow Show in 1981, and interviewed Richard Nixon for ABC Radio in 1984.
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In January 2021, John LeBoutillier signed a letter calling on Republicans to impeach President Donald Trump after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
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John LeBoutillier has written books, most notably the 1978 best-seller Harvard Hates America.
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John LeBoutillier is the co-author, with Edward Klein, of The Obama Identity.
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John LeBoutillier has been a contributor to The New York Times, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
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John LeBoutillier's father was Thomas LeBoutillier, a member of a prominent family and onetime Grumman test pilot.
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John LeBoutillier is a great grandson of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and he is a descendant of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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John LeBoutillier is a resident of Old Westbury, New York.