LC control no. | n 89642576 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Harkin, Tom |
Birth date | 19390718 |
Place of birth | Cumming, Iowa |
Affiliation | Iowa State University Catholic University of America. School of Law United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
Found in | nuc89-73060: Guatemala Human Rights Conference (1985 : Washington, D.C.). Guatemala Human Rights Conference report ... 1985? (hdg. on InNd rept.: Harkin, Tom; usage: Tom Harkin) His Five minutes to midnight, 1990: CIP t.p. (United States Senator Tom Harkin) pub. info (elected to the U.S. Senate from Iowa in 1984; currently a member of the Sen. Appropr. Defense Comm.) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, July 18, 2013: (Harkin, Thomas Richard (Tom), Senate years of service: 1985- ; a Senator and a Representative from Iowa; born in Cumming, Warren County, Iowa, November 19, 1939; attended the public schools; graduated, Iowa State University, Ames 1962; graduated, Catholic University of America Law School, Washington, D.C. 1972; admitted to the Iowa bar in 1972 and commenced practice in Des Moines; served in United States Navy 1962-1967, and Naval reserve 1968-1974; attorney for Polk County, Iowa, Legal Aid Society 1973; member, board of directors, Iowa Consumers League; elected in 1974 as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress; 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 as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1984; reelected in 1990, 1996, 2002, and again in 2008 for the term ending January 3, 2015; chair, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003], One Hundred Tenth Congress, and One Hundred Eleventh Congress [January 3, 2009-September 9, 2009]), Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (One Hundred Eleventh [September 9, 2009-January 3, 2011] to One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses) |
Associated language | eng |