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.