Peter Gerard Torkildsen

A Representative from Massachusetts; born in Milwaukee, Wis., January 28, 1958; B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., 1980; M.P.A., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1990; service coordinator, Visiting Nurse Association of Boston, 1982-1984; member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1985-1990; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1988 and 1996; Massachusetts commissioner of labor and industries, 1991-1992 and 2001-2003; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Third and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 1993-January 3, 1997); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996; unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundred Sixth Congress in 1998; executive director, Massachusetts Workforce Investment Board, 2004 to present.