| LC control no. | n 82107663 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stevens, Ted |
| Variant(s) | Stevens, Theodore F. |
| Birth date | 1923-11-18 |
| Death date | 2010-08-09 |
| Place of birth | Indianapolis (Ind.) |
| Place of death | Alaska |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | Meeting of the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group (23rd : 1982 : Key Largo, Fla.). Twenty-third meeting of the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group, March 4-8, 1982, 1982 (a.e.) p. ii (Ted Stevens, Alaska, chairman, Senate delegation) OCLC, Feb. 19, 2008 (hdgs.: Stevens, Ted; Stevens, Theodore F., 1923- ; usage: Ted Stevens; Theodore F. Stevens) NY Times web site, Aug. 10, 2010 home page (Former United States Senator Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash in southwestern Alaska on [Aug. 9, 2010] ... Mr. Stevens, who had been the longest serving Republican in the United States Senate, was 86) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, viewed May 15, 2019 : (Stevens, Theodore Fulton (Ted), a Senator from Alaska; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., November 18, 1923; attended Oregon State College and Montana State College; graduated, University of California, Los Angeles 1947; graduated, Harvard Law School 1950; served in the United States Army Air Corps in the Second World War in China 1943-1946; admitted to the bar in California in 1950, to the District of Columbia bar in 1951, and to the Alaska bar in 1957; practiced law in Fairbanks, Alaska 1953; legislative counsel, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 1956; assistant to the Secretary of the Interior 1958; chief counsel, Department of the Interior 1960; returned to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1961 and practiced law; elected to State house of representatives in 1964; reelected in 1966, serving as speaker pro tempore and majority leader; appointed on December 24, 1968, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of E.L. Bartlett, and was subsequently elected in a special election on November 3, 1970, to complete the unexpired term ending January 3, 1973; reelected in 1972, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002, and served from December 24, 1968, to January 3, 2009; Republican whip (1977-1985); president pro tempore (2003-2007); chair, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress), Select Committee on Ethics (Ninety-eighth and Ninety-ninth Congresses), Committee on Rules and Administration (One Hundred Fourth Congress [January 3, 1995-September 12, 1995]); Committee on Governmental Affairs (One Hundred Fourth Congress [September 12, 1995-January 2, 1997]), Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred Fifth and One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001], One Hundred Eighth Congress); Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (One Hundred Ninth Congress); indicted by a federal grand jury on July 29, 2008, for allegedly making false statements on financial disclosure forms; case dismissed on April 7, 2009, at request of government because prosecutors concealed evidence of innocence; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 2008; died in a plane crash on August 9, 2010; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; Senate years of service: 1968-2009) |
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