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Senate Years of Service: 1957-1981 Party: Democrat
CHURCH, Frank Forrester, a Senator from Idaho; born in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, July 25,
1924; attended the public schools; graduated from Stanford (Calif.) University
in 1947 and from Stanford Law School in 1950; during the Second World War
served in the United States Army and was assigned to Military Intelligence in
India, Burma, and China 1942-1946; admitted to the bar in 1950 and commenced
the practice of law in Boise, Idaho; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1956; reelected in 1962, 1968, and again in 1974 and served from
January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1981; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1980; chairman, Special Committee on Aging (Ninety-second through Ninety-fifth
Congresses), Special Committee on Termination of the National Emergency
(Ninety-second through Ninety-fourth Congresses), Select Committee on
Government Intelligence Activities (Ninety-fourth Congress), Committee on
Foreign Relations (Ninety-sixth Congress); United States delegate to the
twenty-first General Assembly of the United Nations; resumed the practice of
law; was a resident of Bethesda, Md., until his death there on April 7, 1984;
interment in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Ashby, LeRoy, and Rod
Gramer.
Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church. Pullman:
Washington State University Press, 1994; Church, F. Forrester.
Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of
Idaho. New York: Harper Row, 1985.
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