Porter Goss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Porter Goss

American politician and first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1938

Place of Birth: Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

Profession: businessperson, politician, investor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Porter Johnston Goss (; born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and government official who served as a Republican member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from 1989 until 2004, when he became the last Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position and replaced it with the Director of National Intelligence on April 21, 2005. Goss represented Florida's 14th congressional district from 1989 to 2004.
His district, numbered as the 13th District from 1989 to 1993, included Fort Myers, Naples and part of Port Charlotte.
He served as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to 2004, was a co-sponsor of the USA PATRIOT Act and was a co-chair of the Joint 9/11 Intelligence Inquiry. Goss resigned as Director of the CIA on May 5, 2006, in a sit-down press conference with President George W.
Bush from the Oval Office.
On May 8, Bush nominated U.S.
Air Force General Michael Hayden to be Goss's successor.