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Senate Years of Service: 1981-1993 Party: Republican
SYMMS, Steven Douglas, a Representative and a Senator from Idaho; born in Nampa, Canyon County,
Idaho, April 23, 1938; attended the public schools; graduated, University of Idaho, Moscow 1960;
served in the United States Marine Corps 1960-1963; private pilot; fruit rancher; co-editor of Idaho
Compass 1969-1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to the
three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1981); was not a candidate in 1980 for
reelection to the House of Representatives, but was elected to the United States Senate on November
4, 1980; reelected in 1986 and served from January 3, 1981 to January 3, 1993; was not a
candidate for reelection in 1992; founded Symms, Lehn Associates, Inc.; joined Parry, Romani &
Deconcini 2001.
BibliographyHatzenbuehler, Ronald L., and Bert W. Marley. Why
Church Lost: A Preliminary Analysis of the Church-Symms Election of 1980. Pacific
Historical Review 56 (February 1987): 99-112; Symms, Steven D. Energy: Is There a
Shortage? In Can You Afford This House?, edited by David C. Treen, pp. 259-69.
Edison, NJ: Green Hill Publishers, 1978.
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