Mr. Hamer, the Manhattan representative, resigned as executive vice president for secondary education at Simon & Schuster when he became a board member.
The 46-year-old New York representative resigned hours after the Gawker website reproduced a seemingly self-posed mobile phone picture of Lee's admittedly trim torso, which he sent to a woman on the Craigslist site, claiming to be a "very fit fun classy guy" who was divorced.
Yet, the museum ignored these calls for months in advance of opening (the only Muslim representative resigned in response), and it further refused to screen the film for leading Muslim, Sikh, Arab-American and South Asian anti-discrimination organizations who had requested to view it.
When Representative Anthony Weiner resigned in disgrace in June, he left his diverse district without a voice in the House of Representatives.
So much so that the trust's elected board representative recently resigned in protest at the stadium scandal".
Mr. Jackson himself had won the seat in a crowded special election in 1995 when then-Representative Mel Reynolds resigned after being convicted of having sex with a teenage girl.
Democratic Senator Jim Webb won't run for reëlection in 2012, and Republican Representative Chris Lee resigned abruptly, after being outed by Gawker for his Craigslist activities.
John N. Ford, a Memphis Democrat and uncle of Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., resigned his State Senate seat and will go on trial in the fall.
For Democrats, the question of which district to eliminate was wide open until June, when Representative Anthony D. Weiner resigned after acknowledging that he had sent sexually explicit messages to women he met online.
CHICAGO — Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. resigned from Congress on Wednesday, ending the political career of a son who rose on the name of his father, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., and was once widely expected to outshine him.
