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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasJames William FULBRIGHT
(1905-1995)
Senate Years of Service:
1945-1974Party: DemocratFULBRIGHT, James William,
a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Sumner,
Chariton County, Mo., April 9, 1905; moved with his parents to
Fayetteville, Ark., in 1906; attended the primary and secondary
education teachers’ training schools of the University of
Arkansas grades 1 through 12; graduated from the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1925, as a Rhodes scholar from Oxford
University, England, in 1928, and from the law department of George
Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1934; admitted to the
District of Columbia bar in 1934; attorney, United States
Department of Justice, Antitrust Division 1934-1935; instructor in
law, George Washington University 1935, and lecturer in law,
University of Arkansas 1936-1939; president of the University of
Arkansas 1939-1941; also engaged in the newspaper business, in the
lumber business, in banking, and in farming; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1944; elected as a Democrat
to the United States Senate in 1944; reelected in 1950, 1956, 1962,
and again in 1968, and served from January 3, 1945, until his
resignation December 31, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1974; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency
(Eighty-fourth through Eighty-sixth Congresses), Committee on
Foreign Relations (Eighty-sixth through Ninety-third Congresses);
counsel to the law firm of Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D.C.,
until 1993; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 5,
1993; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death, February
9, 1995; cremated, ashes interred in Fulbright family plot,
Evergreen Cemetery, Fayetteville, Ark.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Scribner Encyclopedia of
American Lives; Fulbright, J. William. The Arrogance of
Power. New York: Random House, 1966; Woods, Randall Bennett.
Fulbright: A Biography. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1995.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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