Dennis DeConcini

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Dennis DeConcini

Dennis Webster DeConcini (born May 8, 1937 in Tucson , Arizona ) is a former American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1977 to 1995 he represented Arizona in the United States Senate .

Family, education and work

Dennis DeConcini's father, Evo Anton DeConcini, was a judge on the Arizona Supreme Court and Attorney General of the state from 1948 to 1949 . The son also embarked on a legal career after studying at the University of Arizona , where he had a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a Juris Doctor in 1963 .

From 1965 to 1967 he served as a lawyer on the governor's staff of Arizona before founding his own law firm, DeConcini, McDonald, Yetwin & Lacy, with offices in Tucson, Phoenix and Washington, DC . In 1973 DeConcini became a prosecutor in Pima County . He held this post until 1976.

Political career

In the 1976 election , DeConcini was elected to the US Senate for Democrats. He defeated in the code ( Primary to deemed to be conservative) Congressman John Bertrand Conlan and in the general election by Republican Sam Steiger also a member of the US House of Representatives. DeConcini took up his Senate mandate on January 3, 1977. Until the 2018 election , in which Kyrsten Sinema won, this was the last non-mandate Senate election in Arizona that a Democrat won. In 1982 and 1988 he was re-elected.

During his tenure in the Senate, DeConcini was responsible for an extension of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties , which dealt with the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama . The amendment allowed the United States, in extreme cases, to take military steps to reopen the Panama Canal or to ensure its operation should the need arise. DeConcini was a member of the Senate, among other things, on the Approval and Justice Committees ; he was also chairman of the intelligence committee from 1993 to 1995 .

In the 1994 election , DeConcini did not run again. One reason was his involvement in the savings and loan crisis , during which he was counted among the so-called Keating Five . These were five senators suspected of corruption in 1989, among them DeConcini, the second Senator from Arizona, John McCain , and John Glenn from Ohio . They were accused of interfering in an FHLBB investigation into the collapse of the Lincoln Savings credit institution , the owner of which Charles Keating had previously made substantial donations to the five senators. A Senate ethics committee found that DeConcini, Donald W. Riegle and Alan Cranston influenced the investigation, while Glenn and McCain were acquitted of the allegations. Other than a formal reprimand against Cranston, no action was taken because the committee found that DeConcini and the other senators had not broken any rule of the Senate. However, their behavior was "inappropriate". DeConcini, however, stated that he would continue to act "aggressively" against federal authorities in the interests of his electorate. DeConcini left the Senate on January 3, 1995.

Another résumé

DeConcini was established in February 1995 by US President Bill Clinton to the governing body ( Board of Directors of the) Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation appointed, where he remained until May 1999th In 2006, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano named him a member of the Arizona University System's Board of Regents . In addition, he continues to work as a lawyer in the law firm he founded.

Web links

Commons : Dennis DeConcini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trudy Ring: Kyrsten Sinema Wins; Will Be First Out Bi US Senator. In: Advocate.com , November 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Senate ethics panel cites Cranston in Keating Five case ( Memento of December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Chicago Tribune , February 28, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME DeConcini, Dennis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeConcini, Dennis Webster (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Tucson , Arizona