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Senate Years of Service: 1971-1977 Party: Republican
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BROCK, William Emerson, III, (grandson of William Emerson Brock),
a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Chattanooga,
Hamilton County, Tenn., November 23, 1930; attended schools in Lookout Mountain and
Chattanooga Tenn.; graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., 1953;
served in the United States Navy 1953-1956; employed by the Brock Candy Co., becoming vice
president of marketing; member of the board of directors of Brock Candy Co.; elected as a
Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection; was elected as a
Republican in 1970 to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1971, to January 3,
1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976; chairman, Republican National Committee
1977-1981; U.S Trade Representative 1981-1985; appointed Secretary of Labor by President
Ronald Reagan 1985-1987; consultant in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful candidate for election
to the United States Senate from Maryland, 1994; is a resident of Annapolis, Maryland.
BibliographyBrock, Bill. Committees in the Senate. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 411 (January 1974):
14-26.
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