Jim Sensenbrenner
First Elected: 1978
Last General Election: 62.0%
Last Primary Election: 81.2%
Full Bio:
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, United States Representative Jesse 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, 1965-2015; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the
twenty 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; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2010 to
conduct the impeachment proceedings of G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; chair,
Committee on Science (One Hundred Fifth and One Hundred Sixth Congresses);
chair, Committee on the Judiciary (One Hundred Seventh through the One Hundred
Ninth Congresses).
Source: Bioguide
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