Sam Farr

ABOUT SAM FARR

Politician and Democrat who became the U.S. Representative for California's seventeenth congressional district in 1993. As a representative of California's central coast, he has pushed Congress to enact legislation protecting the oceans.

He went to Colombia as a Peace Corp member after studying at Willamette University, Santa Clara University and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

He was one of the congressional co-sponsors of a 2007 bill that laid out three articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney .

His father was California state senator Fred Farr.

He participated in and served for the Peace Corps, like astronaut Mae Carol Jemison .