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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaRupert Vance HARTKE
(1919-2003)
Senate Years of Service:
1959-1977Party: DemocratHARTKE, Rupert Vance, a
Senator from Indiana; born in Stendal, Pike County, Ind., May 31,
1919; attended the public schools of Stendal; graduated from
Evansville College in 1940 and Indiana University Law School in
1948; during the Second World War served in the United States Coast
Guard and Navy as a seaman, and advanced to lieutenant 1942-1946;
admitted to the Indiana bar in 1948 and commenced the practice of
law in Evansville, Ind.; deputy prosecuting attorney of Vandenburgh
County, Ind., 1950-1951; mayor of Evansville, Ind., 1956-1958, when
he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1958; reelected in 1964 and again in 1970 and served from January
3, 1959, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1976; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for
President of the United States in 1972; chairman, Committee on
Veterans Affairs (Ninety-second through Ninety-fourth Congresses);
was a resident of Falls Church, Virginia, until his death on July
27, 2003; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Bibliography
Hartke, Vance. The American Crisis in Vietnam. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1968; Hartke, Vance. You and Your Senator.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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