David Durenberger

David Ferdinand Durenberger ( born August 19, 1934 in St. Cloud, Minnesota) is an American politician who represented the state of Minnesota as a member of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate.

After attending school in Collegeville sat David Durenberger continued his education at the Saint John 's University and graduated in 1955; four years later followed the legal degree from the Law School of the University of Minnesota. Yet in 1959 he was inducted into the Bar Association and began practicing in St. Paul. During this time he was a member of the U.S. Army, he served in the Army Reserve 1956-1963.

On November 7, 1978 Durenberger ran as a Republican in the special election for the Senate seat of former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey; after his death in January of this year, his wife Muriel had taken his place as acting. Durenberger won the election with 62 percent of the vote clearly against the Democrats Bob Short and moved the next day in the Senate. In 1982, he sat down with 53 percent of the vote against Mark Dayton by, who was elected 19 years later for the Democrats for Senator; in the re- re-election in 1988 came Durenberger against Skip Humphrey, the son of Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, a share of 56 percent. During his time as a senator, he was, among other things the Committee on the Intelligence Services.

For re-election, he did not start in 1994. There was an incident in 1990 when Durenberger of his Senate colleagues unanimously of unethical behavior with respect to part-time income was found guilty. For the same reason he was excluded from the Bar Association. In 1995 he was indicted for embezzlement of public funds during his tenure. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year's imprisonment on probation.

Politically, Durenberger subsequently no longer active. From 1995 he worked for a Washington-based consulting firm. In 2005, he announced his withdrawal from the Republican Party. Although he did not appear for the Democrats, but explained that this had a better approach to health care and have U.S. President George W. Bush acted improperly in relation to the Iraq war.