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Senate Years of Service: 1957-1989 Party: Democrat
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PROXMIRE, William, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Lake Forest, Lake Forest County,
Ill., November 11, 1915; attended the public schools of Lake Forest and the
Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; graduated, Yale University 1938, Harvard Business
School 1940, and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1948; during the
Second World War served in the Military Intelligence Service 1941-1946, member,
Wisconsin State assembly 1951-1952; businessman; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1952, 1954 and 1956; elected in a
special election on August 28, 1957, as a Democrat to the United States Senate
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R. McCarthy and served from
August 28, 1957, to January 3, 1959; reelected in 1958, 1964, 1970, 1976 and
1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; chairman, Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-fourth, Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth, and One
Hundredth Congresses); not a candidate for reelection in 1988; was a resident
of Washington, D.C., until his death on December 15, 2005; interment in Lake
Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Illinois.
BibliographyProxmire, William.
The Fleecing of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980;
Proxmire, William.
Uncle SamThe Last of the Bigtime Spenders. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1972.
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