Congressman steve latourette
u.s. house, oh-14

Steven C. "Steve" LaTourette (born July 22, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American politician from Ohio. A Republican, he is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 14th congressional district.

A graduate of Cleveland Heights High School (1972) and the University of Michigan, LaTourette studied law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.

After a stint as a public defender, LaTourette was elected the County Prosecutor of Lake County, Ohio and served from 1989 to 1995. There, he made his name prosecuting the Kirtland serial murders that were organized by mass-murderer and outlaw Mormon, Jeffrey Lundgren.

LaTourette was elected to the House in 1994 in the wave of Republican successes in that year, defeating incumbent Eric Fingerhut. LaTourette served the 19th district of Ohio from 1995 to 2003. After another district was eliminated in the round of redistricting following the 2000 Census, LaTourette's district was renumbered to the 14th district of Ohio, where he currently serves the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, northeastern Summit County, northern Trumbull County, and Ashtabula County.

He is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and is chairman of that committee's Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management and a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership. Following his decision to vote to admonish then Majority Leader Tom DeLay, DeLay replaced LaTourette on the House Ethics Committee.

LaTourette married Susan Laptook in 2005.

In 2006 LaTourette co-authored the Financial Data Protection Act of 2006, which seeks to unify state and federal laws on banking and privacy and ease the burden of patchwork legislation.