Thomas Richard Harkin (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Senator, Iowa
- Birth Date: Nov. 19, 1939
- Occupation: Attorney
- Spouse: Ruth
- Religion: Catholic
- Web site: http://www.harkin.senate.gov
Education
- Catholic University, JD
- Iowa State University, BA
Thomas R. Harkin was born in Cumming, where he still resides. He graduated from Dowling High School in Des Moines. Harkin received a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in 1962 and a law degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1972.
He served in the Navy, 1962-67. He then practiced law.
Harkin was elected to the U.S. House in 1974 and was re-elected four times, serving from 1975 to 1985. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984.
Harkin made a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, and won the Iowa caucuses as a favorite son candidate. He dropped out of the race March 9, 1992.
Harkin and his wife, Ruth, have two children.
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