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Senate Years of Service: 1985- Party: Democrat
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HARKIN, Thomas Richard (Tom), a Representative and Senator from Iowa; born in Cumming, Warren
County, Iowa, November 19, 1939; attended the public schools; graduated, Iowa
State University, Ames 1962; graduated, Catholic University of America Law
School, Washington, D.C. 1972; admitted to the Iowa bar in 1972 and commenced
practice in Des Moines; served in United States Navy 1962-1967, and Naval
reserve 1968-1974; attorney for Polk County, Iowa, Legal Aid Society 1973;
member, board of directors, Iowa Consumers League; elected in 1974 as a
Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress; reelected to the four succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1985); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1984 to the House of Representatives, but was elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1984; reelected in 1990, 1996, 2002,
and again in 2008 for the term ending January 3, 2015; chair, Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (One Hundred Seventh Congress [January
3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003], One Hundred Tenth Congress).
BibliographyHarkin, Tom.
Five Minutes to Midnight: Why the Nuclear Threat is Growing Faster than
Ever. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990.
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