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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeBROCK, William Emerson, III
(1930—)
Senate Years of Service:
1971-1977
Party:
Republican
BROCK, William Emerson, III, (grandson of William Emerson Brock), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., November 23, 1930; attended schools in Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga Tenn.; graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., 1953; served in the United States Navy 1953-1956; employed by the Brock Candy Co., becoming vice president of marketing; member of the board of directors of Brock Candy Co.; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection; was elected as a Republican in 1970 to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1971, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976; chairman, Republican National Committee 1977-1981; U.S Trade Representative 1981-1985; appointed Secretary of Labor by President Ronald Reagan 1985-1987; consultant in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate from Maryland, 1994; is a resident of Annapolis, Maryland.
Bibliography
Brock, Bill. “Committees in the Senate.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
411 (January 1974): 14-26.
Brock, Bill. “Committees in the Senate.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
411 (January 1974): 15-26.
Brock, Bill, and Edmund S. Muskie. What Price Defense? American Enterprise Institute Rational Debate Seminars
. Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1974.
Brock, William E., III. “Detente and Containment—the Dangers of Semantics.” Journal of Social and Political Affairs
1 (January 1976): 3-13.
Buhl, William C. “Transforming Leadership in a Political Environment: A Case Study of William Brock at the Department of Labor.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1989.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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