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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisSIMON, Paul Martin
(1928—2003)
Senate Years of Service:
1985-1997
Party:
Democrat
SIMON, Paul Martin, a Representative and Senator from Illinois; born in Eugene, Lane County, Oreg., November 29, 1928; attended the public schools of Eugene and Concordia Academy High School, Portland, Oreg.; attended the University of Oregon, Eugene 1945-1946 and Dana College, Blair, Nebr., 1946-1948; pursued career as a newspaper editor and publisher in Troy, Ill., eventually building a chain of fourteen weeklies; served in the United States Army 1951-1953; teacher at Sangamon State University, Springfield, Ill., 1972-1973, and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government 1973; served in the Illinois house of representatives 1955-1963 and in the Illinois State senate 1963-1968; lieutenant governor of Illinois 1969-1973; author; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1985); was not a candidate for reelection in 1984 to the House of Representatives, but was elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1990 and served from January 3, 1985, to January 3, 1997; was not a candidate for reelection in 1996; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988; director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University, 1997-2003; was a resident of Carbondale, Ill., until his death following heart surgery in Springfield, Ill., on December 9, 2003; interment in a family plot near Makanda, Ill.
Bibliography
Simon, Paul. P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul Simon
. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999; Simon, Paul. Advice Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court’s Nomination Battles
. Washington: National Press Books, 1992.
Simon, Jeanne. Codename Scarlett: Life on the Campaign Trail
. New York: Continuum, 1989.
Simon, Paul. Advice Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court’s Nomination Battles
. Washington: National Press Books, 1992.
___. Beginnings: Senator Paul Simon Speaks to Young Americans
. New York: Continuum, 1986.
___. Freedom’s Champion—Elijah Lovejoy
. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
___. The Glass House: Politics and Morality in the Nation’s Capital
. New York: Continuum, 1984.
___. A Hungry World
. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1966.
___. Let’s Put America Back to Work
. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1987.
___. Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years
. 1965. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.
___. Lovejoy, Martyr to Freedom
. St. Louis, Concordia, 1964.
___. The Once and Future Democrats: Strategies for Change
. New York: Continuum, 1982.
___. Our Culture of Pandering
. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.
___. P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul Simon
. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999.
___. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis
. New York: Continuum, 1980.
___. We Can Do Better: Criticism, Praise, and Advice to President Clinton
. Washington: National Press Books, 1994.
___. Winners and Losers: The 1988 Race for the Presidency—One Candidate’s Perspective
. New York: Continuum, 1989.
___. You Want to Change the World? So Change It!
New York: T. Nelson, 1971.
Simon, Paul, and Arthur Simon. The Politics of World Hunger: Grass-Roots Politics and World Poverty
. New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1973.
Simon, Paul, and Jeanne Simon. Protestant-Catholic Marriages Can Succeed
. New York: Association Press, 1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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