Dennis DeConcini
Dennis Webster DeConcini ( born May 8, 1937 in Tucson, Arizona ) is a former American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Arizona from 1977 to 1995 in the U.S. Senate.
Legal career
Dennis DeConcinis Evo Anton DeConcini father was a judge of the Supreme Court of Arizona, and from 1948 to 1949 Attorney General of the State. His son went in a legal career, after he had initially completed in 1959 as a bachelor's degree at the University of Arizona and received his doctorate there in 1963 as a Doctor of Law. From 1965 to 1967 he worked as a lawyer on the staff of the governor of Arizona, before founding his own law firm DeConcini, McDonald, Yetwin & Lacy, with offices in Tucson, Phoenix and Washington DC founded.
In 1973, Dennis DeConcini prosecutor in Pima County. A post he held until 1976, when he was elected for the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. He defeated in the Primary deemed to be the conservative Congressman John Bertrand Conlan and in the actual election with the Republican Sam Steiger also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Senator
During his time in the Senate DeConcini was responsible for an extension of the Torrijos -Carter Treaties, which dealt with the status of the Panama Canal Zone. The amendment would allow the United States to take the extreme case, including military steps, to open the Panama Canal again or to ensure its operation, should this need arise. DeConcini was a member of the Senate, the Appropriations Committee and the Judiciary Committee; Furthermore, he was from 1993 to 1995 Chairman of the Committee for the intelligence services.
1994 DeConcini not stand for re- election. 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 who were suspected of corruption in 1989, among them beside the second DeConcini Senator also from Arizona, John McCain and John Glenn of Ohio. They were accused of interfering with an investigation of the federal agency FHLBB and thus the later collapse of the credit institution's Lincoln Savings feed to have done, whereby its owner Charles Keating had previously made substantial donations to the five senators. An ethics committee of the Senate noted that DeConcini, Donald W. Riegle and Alan Cranston had influenced the investigation, while Glenn and McCain were cleared of the allegations. Apart from a formal reprimand to Cranston stayed out of action because the Committee noted that DeConcini and the other senators had no control of the Senate broken. Their behavior was, however, been " inappropriate." DeConcini said, however, that he would in the interest of his constituents continue to " aggressively " against federal agencies occur.
Further CV
After he resigned from the Senate in early 1995, DeConcini was appointed in February this year by U.S. President Bill Clinton into governing body (Board of Directors ) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, where he served until May 1999. 2006 Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano appointed him as a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Arizona. He is still working as a lawyer at the law firm he founded.