Jill L. Long
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| District: | Indiana 4th District |
| Political party: | Democratic |
| Term of office: | 1988 - 1994 |
| Preceded by: | Dan Coats |
| Succeeded by: | Mark Souder |
| Date of birth: | July 15, 1952 |
| Place of birth: | Warsaw, Indiana |
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Jill Lynette Long Thompson (July 15, 1952 - ) Is an American politician and educator. Born in Warsaw, Indiana she was raised on a family farm outside of Larwill, Indiana in Whitley County.
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[edit] Education
Long graduated from Columbia City Joint High School, in Columbia City, Indiana before going to Valparaiso University to get a bachelor's degree. She was awarded an M.B.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1978. IN 1984 she received her Ph.D. from Indiana University.
[edit] Career
[edit] Educator
Between 1977 and 1980, Long was an assistant instructor and lecturer, Indiana University, Bloomington before being hired as an assistant professor Valparaiso University, where she worked between 1981 and 1988. She also served as an adjunct professor at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne between 1987 and 1989. During the 2002-2003 academic year Long-Thompson was an adjunct faculty member at Manchester College in North Manchester, IN. Both her educational campaign and congressional campaign against Chris Chocola were unsuccessful though the congressional campaign was by a narrow margin. Manchester College is a small liberal arts college in the tradition of the Church of the Brethren.
[edit] Politician
Her first elected office was as a member of the Valparaiso, Indiana city council. She served in that post from 1984 to 1986. Long was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1986; two years later she was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundred-first United States Congress.
With the appointment of Dan Coats to the Senate in 1988, Long was elected as a Democrat in a special election to fill the vacancy. She was re-elected twice. She ran for reelection in 1994 but lost to Mark Souder as one of many Democrats to lose a seat in Congress as part of a Republican sweep resulting from the Contract with America campaign.
In 1995, Long was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Under Secretary for Rural Economic and Community Development at the United States Department of Agriculture, where she served until 2001 with the start of the George W. Bush administration.
In 2002, she made a political comeback when she ran for the open congressional seat in the 2nd District. She lost by the narrow margin of 50%-46% to Chris Chocola.
[edit] Life after Congress
Long served as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
[edit] External link
- LONG (THOMPSON), Jill Lynette, (1952 - ) - Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
| Preceded by: Dan Coats |
United States Representative for the 4th Congressional District of Indiana 1989-1995 |
Succeeded by: Mark Souder |
