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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. |
| Address |
Houston, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
February 11, 1921 |
| Died |
May 23, 2006
(85 years) |
| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Jun 05, 2022 12:23am |
| Tags |
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| Info | BENTSEN, Lloyd Millard, Jr., (Uncle of Ken Bentsen), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born in Mission, Tex., February 11, 1921; attended the public schools; graduated, University of Texas Law School at Austin 1942 and was admitted to the bar the same year; served in the United States Army Air Forces 1942-1945, attaining rank of major; awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; entered the private practice of law in McAllen, Tex., in 1945; county judge of Hidalgo County 1946-1948; elected in 1948 as a Democrat in to the Eighty-first Congress and, at a special election on December 4, 1948, to fill the vacancy in the Eightieth Congress caused by the death of Milton H. West; reelected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses and served from December 4, 1948, to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954; founded and operated a financial holding company in Texas; elected as a Democrat in 1970 to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1971; reelected in 1976, 1982, and 1988, and served from January 3, 1971, until his resignation on January 20, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1976; chairman, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Committee on Finance (One Hundredth through One Hundred Second Congresses); Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States 1988; Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-1994; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 11, 1999; was a resident of Houston, Texas, at the time of his death on May 23, 2006; interment in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
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| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Oct 15, 1991 |
NPA |
Reject |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Oct 02, 1990 |
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David Souter |
| US Secretary of Defense - Mar 09, 1989 |
R |
John G. Tower |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Feb 03, 1988 |
R |
Anthony M. Kennedy |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Oct 23, 1987 |
NPA |
Reject |
| Supreme Court - Chief Justice - Sep 17, 1986 |
R |
William H. Rehnquist |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Sep 17, 1986 |
R |
Antonin Scalia |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Sep 21, 1981 |
R |
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 17, 1975 |
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John Paul Stevens |
| US Secretary of the Interior - Jun 11, 1975 |
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Stanley K. Hathaway |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 15, 1971 |
R |
William H. Rehnquist |
| Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 09, 1971 |
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Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. |
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