John Edward Porter, a partner in the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson and former U.S. congressman from the 10th District in Illinois, at his downtown Washington law office in 2006 in front of a photograph of his father, who was a Cook County Circuit Court judge for many years.
He was a staunch fiscal conservative who railed against the deficit spending encouraged by President Ronald Reagan’s administration. But his moderate social views as an early supporter of green environmental initiatives and his backing of abortion and other women’s rights would find him an outlier in today’s GOP.Porter was one of the powerful “cardinals” in Congress who chaired a key appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies.
“John Porter’s legacy is one of longer, healthier lives, not just for our nation but the world,” said former U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, a former Porter chief of staff, in a statement honoring Porter’s retirement from Congress. Porter supported the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Protection Act, the National Park Protection Act and the Land and Water Conservation Fund. He also voted for the Endangered Species Act and against the inhumane use of animals in product testing and the use of leghold traps. He sought to tie U.S. foreign lending to developing nations to their efforts to protect tropical rainforests and wetlands.
John Edward Porter was born in Evanston and graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1953. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before earning his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in 1957. He got his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1961. Porter also served in the Army Reserves from 1958 to 1964.
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