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Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985.
As a young senator, Tom Harkin was tapped by Senator Ted Kennedy to craft legislation to protect the civil rights of the millions of Americans with physical and mental disabilities.
Former Senator Tom Harkin, a fixture in Iowa Democratic politics for over four decades, discouraged Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. from entering the presidential race, suggesting that...
Senator Tom Harkin represented Iowa in the United States Congress for more than four decades. He served Iowa’s 5 th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and was a U.S. Senator from 1985 to 2015.
In 1974, Tom Harkin was elected to Congress from Iowa’s Fifth Congressional District. His energetic, person-to-person campaign carried the day against an incumbent in a long-standing Republican district.
Tom Harkin is an American politician. He served as a United States Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. Over the course of his Senate tenure, and during the years of the Obama presidency, he served as Chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, ...
Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin (b. November 19, 1939, in Cumming, IA) is a former Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from the state of Iowa. Harkin was first elected to the Senate in 1984. [1]
Tom first came to Washington, D.C. in 1969 to join the staff of Iowa Congressman Neal Smith. As a staff member accompanying a congressional delegation to South Vietnam, he revealed to the world the infamous “tiger cages” inside a South Vietnamese prison camp at Con Son Island.
Working with Senator Bob Dole and others, Tom Harkin authored the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), landmark legislation that protects the civil rights of more than 54 million Americans with physical and mental disabilities.
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