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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoCHURCH, Frank Forrester
(1924—1984)
Senate Years of Service:
1957-1981
Party:
Democrat
CHURCH, Frank Forrester, a Senator from Idaho; born in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, July 25, 1924; attended the public schools; graduated from Stanford (Calif.) University in 1947 and from Stanford Law School in 1950; during the Second World War served in the United States Army and was assigned to Military Intelligence in India, Burma, and China 1942-1946; admitted to the bar in 1950 and commenced the practice of law in Boise, Idaho; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1956; reelected in 1962, 1968, and again in 1974 and served from January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1981; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980; chairman, Special Committee on Aging (Ninety-second through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Special Committee on Termination of the National Emergency (Ninety-second through Ninety-fourth Congresses), Select Committee on Government Intelligence Activities (Ninety-fourth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Ninety-sixth Congress); United States delegate to the twenty-first General Assembly of the United Nations; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Bethesda, Md., until his death there on April 7, 1984; interment in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
Bibliography
American National Biography
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. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994; Church, F. Forrester. Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho
. New York: Harper Row, 1985.
Ashby, LeRoy. “Frank Church Goes to the Senate: The Idaho Election of 1956.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
78 (January-April 1987): 17-31.
Ashby, LeRoy, and Rod Gramer. Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church
. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994.
Brock, Gustaf J. “ ‘Congress Must Draw the Line’: Senator Frank Church and the Cooper-Church Amendment of 1970.” Idaho Yesterdays
35 (Summer 1991): 27-36.
___. “The Doves Have Won: Senator Frank Church and the Vietnam War.” Master’s thesis, University of Nebraska, 1989.
Bunn, Tim. “The 1968 Frank Church vs. George Hansen Idaho Senatorial Election and Campaign: A Descriptive, Qualitative Analysis.” Master’s thesis, Boise State University, 1986.
Church, F. Forrester. Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho
. New York: Harper Row, 1985.
Church, Frank. “Borah the Statesman.” Idaho Yesterdays
9 (Summer 1965): 2-9.
Ewert, Sara E. Dant. “The Conversion of Senator Frank Church: Evolution of an Environmentalist.” Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, 2000.
___. “Evolution of an Environmentalist: Senator Frank Church and the Hells Canyon Controversy.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History
51 (Spring 2001): 36-51.
___. “Peak Park Politics: The Struggle over the Sawtooths, from Borah to Church.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
(Summer 2000): 138-149.
Hall, Bill. Frank Church, D.C., and Me.
Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995.
Hatzenbuehler, Ronald L., and Bert W. Marley. “Why Church Lost: A Preliminary Analysis of the Church-Symms Election of 1980.” Pacific Historical Review
56 (February 1987): 99-112.
Schmitz, David F. “Senator Frank Church, the Ford Administration, and the Challenges of Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy.” Peace & Change
21 (Oct 1996), pp. 438-63.
___, and Natalie Fousekis. “Frank Church, the Senate, and the Emergence of Dissent on the Vietnam War.” Pacific Historical Review
63 (November 1994): 561-581.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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