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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisEverett McKinley DIRKSEN
(1896-1969)
Senate Years of Service:
1951-1969Party: RepublicanDIRKSEN, Everett McKinley,
(father-in-law of Howard Baker), a Representative and a Senator
from Illinois; born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., January 4,
1896; attended public schools and the University of Minnesota
College of Law at Minneapolis; during the First World War served
overseas as a private and later as a second lieutenant of Field
Artillery 1918-1919; general manager of a dredging company
1922-1925; commissioner of finance of Pekin, Ill., 1927-1931;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced practice in
Pekin, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to
the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1949);
chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956,
1962, and again in 1968, and served from January 3, 1951, until his
death in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1969; Republican whip
1957-1959; minority leader 1959-1969; chairman, Joint Committee on
Inaugural Arrangements (Ninetieth Congress); lay in state in the
Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, September 9-10, 1969; interment in
Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; American National
Biography; Dirksen, Everett M. The Education of a
Senator. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998; MacNeil,
Neil. Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. New York: World
Publishing Company, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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