Summary
SENSENBRENNER, Frank James, Jr., a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill.,
June 14, 1943; graduated from Milwaukee Country Day School, 1961; A.B.,
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1965; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law
School, Madison, Wis., 1968; staff assistant to United States Representative J.
Arthur Younger of California, 1965; lawyer, private practice; member of the
Wisconsin state assembly, 1969-1975; member of the Wisconsin state senate,
1975-1979, assistant minority leader, 1977-1979; delegate, Wisconsin state
Republican conventions, 1965-2009; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth
and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-present); one of
the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1989 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against Walter L. Nixon, judge of the United States
District Court for the District Court of Mississippi; one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1998 to conduct the impeachment
proceedings of President William Jefferson Clinton; one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 2009 to conduct the impeachment
proceedings of Samuel B. Kent, judge of the United States District Court for
the Southern District of Texas; chair, Committee on Science (One Hundred Fifth
and One Hundred Sixth Congress); chair, Committee on the Judiciary (One Hundred
Seventh through the One Hundred Ninth Congresses).
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