Bob Kasten

Robert Walter " Bob" Case Jr. ( born June 19, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) is a former American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Wisconsin in both houses of Congress.

Bob box visited as a teenager the Choate Rosemary Hall, a private school in Wallingford (Connecticut), where he reached his 1960 high school graduation. In 1964, the graduation at the University of Arizona in Tucson; two years later he took a degree at Columbia Business School in New York City. From 1966 to 1972 he served in the Air National Guard of Wisconsin.

On November 7, 1972 the day on which Richard Nixon was sustained as President of the United States, won the election box for State Senator in Wisconsin. Two years later he decided the election in the 9th Congressional District of the State itself, after which he entered on January 3, 1975 the House of Representatives of the United States; In 1976 he was confirmed in office. Unsuccessfully ran in 1978 his application for the post of governor of Wisconsin when he lost the Republican primary to eventual election winner Lee S. Dreyfus.

Then, in 1980 came to box in the election for U.S. Senate against the Democratic incumbent Gaylord Nelson, whom he defeated with a vote share of 50.2 percent. In this election, he benefited from the trend in favor of the Republicans, whose candidate Ronald Reagan at the same time won the presidential election. He was the first Republican senator from Wisconsin, since Alexander Wiley in 1963 was divorced from office.

Box, attributed to the conservative wing of his party in the Senate, was re-elected in 1986, with him this again very nearly succeeded with 50.9 percent to Democrat Ed Garvey. In 1992 he came only to a share of 46 percent, which had passed to Russ Feingold from his position on January 3, 1993. He was no longer politically active in the sequence and was president of his own consulting firm called Box & Company. In advance of the 2008 presidential election was announced that box should be members of the campaign team of Rudolph Giuliani as a foreign policy adviser; It was also provided that he passes the campaign in Wisconsin. However, Giuliani no longer occurred after his defeat in Florida already in the primaries in Wisconsin.