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Senate Years of Service: 1969-1996 Party: Republican
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DOLE, Robert Joseph, (husband of Elizabeth H. Dole),
a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Russell, Kans.,
July 22, 1923; graduated, Washburn Municipal University, Topeka, Kans., with an
undergraduate and law degree in 1952, after attending Kansas University
1941-1943 and University of Arizona 1948-1949; during the Second World War
served as a combat infantry officer in Italy; was wounded twice and
hospitalized for thirty-nine months; awarded two Purple Hearts and the Bronze
Star with an Oak Cluster for military service; admitted to the bar and
commenced the practice of law in Russell, Kans., 1952; member, State house of
representatives 1951-1953; county attorney of Russell County 1953-1961; elected
as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress and to the three succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1969); elected to the United States
Senate in 1968, reelected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, and served from
January 3, 1969, to June 11, 1996, when he resigned to campaign for the
presidency; majority leader 1985-1987, 1995-1996; minority leader 1987-1995;
chairman, Committee on Finance (Ninety-seventh through Ninety-eighth
Congresses), Special Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe
(Ninety-ninth Congress); chairman, Republican National Committee 1971-1972;
advisor, Presidents Delegation to Study the Food Crisis in India 1966;
advisor, U.S. Delegation to Study the Arab Refugee Problem 1967; advisor, U.S.
Delegation to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 1965, 1968,
1974, 1975, 1977, 1979; member, U.S. National Commission for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization 1970 and 1973; member,
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 1977; advisor, GATT
Ministerial Trade Conference 1982; member, National Commission on Social
Security Reform 1983; member, Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday
Commission 1984; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice President of the
United States in 1976; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination in 1988; unsuccessful Republican nominee for President of the United
States in 1996; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 17, 1997;
chairman, International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia
1997-2001; national chairman, National World War II Memorial 1997-2004; engaged
in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., 1997-.
Bibliography Dole, Bob.
One Soldiers Story: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2005;
Dole, Robert J.
Historical Almanac of the United States Senate: A Series of
Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth
Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1989; U.S. Congress.
Senate.
Tributes Delivered in Congress: Robert J. Dole, United States
Congressman 1961-1969, United States Senator 1969-1996. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1996 (S. Doc.104-19).
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