Robert Kastenmeier
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Robert William Kastenmeier (born January 24, 1924) is a United States politician. He represented Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1991, and is a member of the Democratic Party.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Education
Kastenmeier was born in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin, and attended its public schools. He continued his education at Carleton College and at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he got his LL.B. in 1952, and was admitted to the bar and began to practice law in Watertown, Wisconsin.
[edit] Military service
He entered the Army as a private in February 1943 and served in the Philippines. He was discharged on August 15, 1946 as a first lieutenant. Afterwards, he served in the War Department as a branch office director in the claims service in the Philippines from 1946 to 1948.
[edit] Political career
In 1955, Kastenmeier was elected to the position of Justice of the Peace for Jefferson and Dodge Counties, and he served until 1959.
On January 3, 1959, he was elected to the Eighty-sixth House of Representatives, and continued serving in the fifteen succeeding terms, until January 3, 1991. As a congressman, Kastenmeier was one of the managers appointed by the House in 1986 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harry E. Claiborne, a judge of the United States District Court for Nevada.
He was also on the House Committee on the Judiciary involved in the creation of the Copyright Act of 1976.[1]
In 1990, Kastenmeier lost his re-election bid, and was succeeded by the almost 30 years younger Republican, Scott Klug.
Robert Kastenmeier currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.
| Preceded by Donald Edgar Tewes |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district 1959-1991 |
Succeeded by Scott Klug |
[edit] Notes
- ^ See, e.g., Robert Kastenmeier, 90th Cong., Report To Accompany H.R. 2512, Report No. 83 (March 8, 1967)
