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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasRobert Joseph DOLE
(1923- )
Senate Years of Service:
1969-1996Party: RepublicanDOLE, Robert Joseph,
(husband of Elizabeth H. Dole), a Representative and a Senator from
Kansas; born in Russell, Kans., July 22, 1923; graduated, Washburn
Municipal University, Topeka, Kans., with an undergraduate and law
degree in 1952, after attending Kansas University 1941-1943 and
University of Arizona 1948-1949; during the Second World War served
as a combat infantry officer in Italy; was wounded twice and
hospitalized for thirty-nine months; awarded two Purple Hearts and
the Bronze Star with an Oak Cluster for military service; admitted
to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Russell, Kans.,
1952; member, State house of representatives 1951-1953; county
attorney of Russell County 1953-1961; elected as a Republican to
the Eighty-seventh Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1961-January 3, 1969); elected to the United States
Senate in 1968, reelected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, and served
from January 3, 1969, to June 11, 1996, when he resigned to
campaign for the presidency; majority leader 1985-1987, 1995-1996;
minority leader 1987-1995; chairman, Committee on Finance
(Ninety-seventh through Ninety-eighth Congresses), Special
Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Ninety-ninth
Congress); chairman, Republican National Committee 1971-1972;
advisor, President’s Delegation to Study the Food Crisis in
India 1966; advisor, U.S. Delegation to Study the Arab Refugee
Problem 1967; advisor, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization 1965, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979;
member, U.S. National Commission for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization 1970 and 1973;
member, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 1977;
advisor, GATT Ministerial Trade Conference 1982; member, National
Commission on Social Security Reform 1983; member, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission 1984; unsuccessful Republican
candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1976;
unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination
in 1988; unsuccessful Republican nominee for President of the
United States in 1996; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on
January 17, 1997; chairman, International Commission on Missing
Persons in the Former Yugoslavia 1997-2001; national chairman,
National World War II Memorial 1997-2004; engaged in the practice
of law in Washington, D.C., 1997-.
Bibliography
Dole, Bob. One Soldier’s Story: A Memoir. New York:
HarperCollins, 2005; Dole, Robert J. Historical Almanac of the
United States Senate: A Series of ”Bicentennial
Minutes” Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth
Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1989; U.S.
Congress. Senate. Tributes Delivered in Congress: Robert J.
Dole, United States Congressman 1961-1969, United States Senator
1969-1996. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1996 (S.
Doc.104-19).
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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