Dirksen, Everett McKinley

LC control no.	n 50025549
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dirksen, Everett McKinley *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Biography/History note	1896-1969
Associated place	Minneapolis. Minn.
Birth date	18960104
Death date	19690907
Place of birth	Pekin, Ill.
Place of death	Washington, D.C.
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate University of Minnesota. College of Law
Profession or occupation	Legislators
Found in	His Republican review of the first session, 86th Congress, 1959. Biog. Dir. of the U.S. Congress website, viewed May 1, 2012 (DIRKSEN, Everett McKinley, a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., Jan. 4, 1896; attended public schools and the University of Minnesota College of Law at Minneapolis; during the First World War served overseas as a private and later as a second lieutenant of Field Artillery 1918-1919; general manager of a dredging company 1922-1925; commissioner of finance of Pekin, Ill., 1927-1931; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced practice in Pekin, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Mar. 4, 1933-Jan. 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968, and served from Jan. 3, 1951, until his death in Washington, D.C., Sept. 7, 1969; Republican whip 1957-1959; minority leader 1959-1969; chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Ninetieth Congress); lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 9-10, 1969; interment in Glendale Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.)