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Senate Years of Service: 1945-1974 Party: Democrat
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FULBRIGHT, James William, a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Sumner,
Chariton County, Mo., April 9, 1905; moved with his parents to Fayetteville,
Ark., in 1906; attended the primary and secondary education teachers training
schools of the University of Arkansas grades 1 through 12; graduated from the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1925, as a Rhodes scholar from Oxford
University, England, in 1928, and from the law department of George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., in 1934; admitted to the District of Columbia bar
in 1934; attorney, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
1934-1935; instructor in law, George Washington University 1935, and lecturer
in law, University of Arkansas 1936-1939; president of the University of
Arkansas 1939-1941; also engaged in the newspaper business, in the lumber
business, in banking, and in farming; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1944; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1944; reelected in 1950, 1956, 1962, and again in 1968, and served from January
3, 1945, until his resignation December 31, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1974; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency
(Eighty-fourth through Eighty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations
(Eighty-sixth through Ninety-third Congresses); counsel to the law firm of
Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D.C., until 1993; awarded the Presidential Medal
of Freedom on May 5, 1993; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death,
February 9, 1995; cremated, ashes interred in Fulbright family plot, Evergreen
Cemetery, Fayetteville, Ark.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Fulbright, J.
William.
The Arrogance of Power. New York: Random House, 1966; Woods,
Randall Bennett.
Fulbright: A Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
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