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Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American politician and lawyer. A Democrat, from 1957 to 1981 he served as a U.S. Senator from Idaho, and is currently the last Democrat to do so.
May 8, 2023 · Journalist James Risen tells the story of Sen. Frank Church, who exposed the dirty laundry of the CIA and the FBI nearly 50 years ago, and inspired congressional oversight of intelligence...
Frank Church: A Featured Biography. As a senator from Idaho, Frank Church championed wide-ranging causes. He played a major role in creating protected wilderness areas, floor managing the Wilderness Act of 1964 and authoring the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968.
Frank Church led one of the most important oversight investigations ever undertaken by Congress into covert operations by the U.S. intelligence community. His work began on January 27, 1975, when the Senate voted 82-to-4 to form the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities; it would ...
May 8, 2023 · Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen tells the story of Senator Frank Church, who exposed crimes and cover-ups of the CIA and the FBI nearly 50 years ago. Risen says the Church...
Church, Frank Forrester, 1924–1984. Senate Years of Service: 1956–1981. Party: Democrat. Frank Church was born in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, July 25, 1924. He graduated from Stanford (Calif.) University in 1947 and from Stanford Law School in 1950.
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May 8, 2024 · Frank Church was an American politician from Idaho who served four terms in the U.S. Senate (1957–81). Church, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party, played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in the reform of U.S. intelligence activities.