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Senate Years of Service: 1968-1987
Party: Democrat
EAGLETON, Thomas Francis, a Senator from Missouri; born in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Mo.,
September 4, 1929; enlisted in the United States Navy and served from 1948 to
1949; graduated, Amherst College 1950; graduated, Harvard Law School 1953;
elected circuit attorney of St. Louis, Mo., 1956; elected attorney general of
Missouri 1960; elected lieutenant governor of Missouri 1964; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1968 for the six-year term commencing
January 3, 1969; subsequently appointed December 28, 1968, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Edward V. Long for the term ending January 3,
1969; reelected in 1974 and 1980, and served from December 28, 1968, to January
3, 1987; unsuccessful Democratic vice-presidential candidate 1972; lawyer; was
a resident of St. Louis, Mo., until his death on March 4, 2007; willed body to
Washington University for medical research purposes.
BibliographyEagleton, Thomas.
Our Constitution and What It Means. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1987; Eagleton, Thomas.
War and Presidential Power. New York: Liveright, 1974; Sarvis,
Will “‘I Enjoyed My Work in the Senate’: An Oral Interview
with Thomas F. Eagleton.”
Missouri Historical Review 102 (Oct. 2007):
42–57.
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