Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Peter Visclosky (born August 13, 1949, in Gary, Indiana) is serving his ninth term as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's First Congressional District. His first term in Congress began in January of 1984. The First District lies in northwest Indiana and includes all of Lake, Newton, Jasper and Benton counties as well as a major portion of Porter County. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He attended Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana, Indiana University Northwest, University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University. This is his first elected office. External link Official site. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.