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  Reuss, Henry S.
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NameHenry S. Reuss
Address1301 North Astor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin , United States
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Born February 22, 1912
Died January 12, 2002 (89 years)
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InfoHenry Schoellkopf Reuss

born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis., February 22, 1912; A.B., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1933; L.L.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1936; lawyer, private practice; business executive; assistant corporation counsel for Milwaukee County, Wis., 1939-1940; counsel for United States Office of Price Administration, 1941-1942; United States Army, 1943-1945; chief of price control, Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945; deputy general counsel, the Marshall Plan, Paris, France, 1949; special prosecutor, grand jury, Milwaukee County, Wis., 1950; member of school board, Milwaukee, Wis., 1953-1954; member of legal advisory committee, United States National Resources Board, 1948-1952; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., in 1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1983); chair, Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing (Ninety-fourth Congress); chair, Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); chair, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; died on January 12, 2002, in San Rafael, Calif.; cremated.


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  11/04/1980 WI District 5 Won 77.00% (+54.82%)
  09/09/1980 WI District 5 - D Primary Won 88.07% (+76.14%)
  11/07/1978 WI District 5 Won 73.07% (+47.14%)
  11/02/1976 WI District 5 Won 77.77% (+56.78%)
  09/14/1976 WI District 5 - D Primary Won 64.50% (+28.99%)
  11/05/1974 WI District 5 Won 79.97% (+59.94%)
  11/07/1972 WI District 5 Won 77.30% (+56.88%)
  11/03/1970 WI District 5 Won 75.94% (+52.94%)
  11/05/1968 WI District 5 Won 67.78% (+36.34%)
  07/29/1968 US Vice President - D Convention Lost 0.04% (-73.97%)
  11/08/1966 WI District 5 Won 70.02% (+40.36%)
  11/03/1964 WI District 5 Won 75.96% (+51.92%)
  11/06/1962 WI District 5 Won 63.57% (+27.13%)
  11/08/1960 WI District 5 Won 57.72% (+15.44%)
  09/13/1960 WI District 5 - D Primary Won 78.50% (+57.01%)
  04/05/1960 Milwaukee Mayor Lost 42.38% (-15.23%)
  03/08/1960 Milwaukee Mayor - Primary Won 41.52% (+8.25%)
  11/04/1958 WI District 5 Won 69.46% (+38.91%)
  11/06/1956 WI District 5 Won 57.75% (+15.50%)
  11/02/1954 WI District 5 Won 52.25% (+4.50%)
  09/14/1954 WI District 5 - D Primary Won 73.20% (+57.40%)
  09/09/1952 WI US Senate - D Primary Lost 49.23% (-1.53%)
  11/07/1950 WI Attorney General Lost 42.99% (-13.29%)
  04/06/1948 Milwaukee Mayor Lost 44.03% (-11.94%)
  03/16/1948 Milwaukee Mayor - Primary Won 20.44% (+0.00%)
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WI US President - D Primary - Apr 02, 1968 D Eugene J. "Gene" McCarthy
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