James A. Courter
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 12th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Matthew J. Rinaldo |
| Succeeded by | Dick Zimmer |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 13th district |
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In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Helen Stevenson Meyner |
| Succeeded by | Edwin B. Forsythe |
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October 14, 1941 Montclair, New Jersey |
| Political party | Republican |
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Colgate University Duke University School of Law |
James Andrew "Jim" Courter (born October 14, 1941) is a United States Republican Party politician, lawyer and businessman. He is a resident of Hackettstown, New Jersey.
He was born October 14, 1941, in Montclair, New Jersey.
A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Courter graduated from Montclair Academy in 1959, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from Colgate University and a Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law in 1966. After law school, Courter became a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela.
Beginning in 1971, Courter was a senior partner in the New Jersey law firm of Courter, Kobert, Laufer & Cohen. He was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand from January 1994 to September 1996.
His career in public service included representing New Jersey as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years, from 1979 until 1991. He was nominated as the Republican Party's nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1989, but lost in a landslide defeat to Democrat Jim Florio and decided not to run for reelection to congress in 1990. From 1991 to 1994, Courter held the cabinet-level position of chairman of the Base Closure and Realignment Commission, having been appointed by both President George Herbert Walker Bush and President Bill Clinton; the Commission oversaw the restructuring of the United States' domestic military base infrastructure.
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