 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaHAMILTON, Lee Herbert
(1931—)
HAMILTON, Lee Herbert, a Representative from Indiana; born in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Fla., April 20, 1931; attended the public schools of Evansville, Ind.; graduated from De Pauw University, 1952; studied at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1952 and 1953; graduated from Indiana University School of Law, 1956; lawyer, private practice; treasurer of Bartholomew County Young Democrats, 1960-1963, and president, 1963-1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1999); chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence (Ninety-ninth Congress), Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran (One Hundredth Congress), Joint Economic Committee (One Hundred First Congress); Committee on Foreign Affairs (One Hundred Third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixth Congress in 1998; vice chair, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2002-2004.
Bibliography
Hamilton, Lee. How Congress Works and Why You Should Care
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004; Hamilton, Lee H. with Jordan Tama. A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress
. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003.
Dotts, Brian Wayne. “Lee Hamilton’s Home Style: Indiana’s Ninth Congressional District.” Master’s thesis, Boston College, 1992.
Hamilton, Lee. “Central America in Perspective.” In The Crisis in Central America.
Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press, 1987.
———. “Congress and Foreign Policy.” Presidential Studies Quarterly
12 (Spring 1982): 133-37.
———. “Congress and the Presidency in American Foreign Policy.” Presidential Studies Quarterly
18 (Summer 1988): 507-11.
———. “Constituent Service and Representation.” Public Manager
21 (Summer 1992): 12-15.
———. How Congress Works and Why You Should Care
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
———. “National Security and National Defense.” Presidential Studies Quarterly
15 (Spring 1985): 261-70.
———. The Role of Intelligence in the Foreign Policy Process.
Claremont, Calif.: Keck Center for International Strategic Studies, 1987.
———. U. S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Report and Recommendations.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1993.
Hamilton, Lee H. and Jordan Tama. A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress
. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
|
