Donald W. Riegle, Jr.

Donald "Don" Wayne Riegle Jr. ( born February 4, 1938 in Flint, Michigan) is an American business leaders, politicians of the Democratic Party and was both a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives as well as long-time U.S. Senator for Michigan.

Biography

After the completion of Flint Central High School in 1956, he studied at Flint Junior College and then at Western University. He then studied at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1960. A subsequent post-graduate studies at Michigan State University, he finished in 1961. Finally, he completed another post-graduate studies at the Harvard Business School.

As a candidate of the Republican Party, he was in 1966 elected as Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and represented there after several re- elections 1967-1976 the interests of the 7th Congressional District of Michigan. In 1973, he joined the Democratic Party. After the death of Senator Philip Hart on December 26, 1976, the previously selected Donald W. Riegle owner of the First Senate seat ( Senator Class 1 ) for Michigan was prematurely as his successor. In this position he was re-elected in 1982 and 1988 and was thus up to 1995 representatives of Michigan in the U.S. Senate.

As a member of the so-called Keating Five, he was one addition to the Democratic Senators Alan Cranston (California), Dennis DeConcini (Arizona ) and John Glenn (Ohio ) and Republican John McCain (Arizona ) to the five senators in the U.S. Senate, which in 1989 corruption has been accused. This sparked as part of the so-called savings -and -loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a major political scandal. Despite these significant allegations he finished, although his election time, but maintained other than Glenn and McCain on a bid again. The main reason was that the Ethics Committee of the Senate stated that he, DeConcini and Alan Cranston influence had taken on the investigation, while Glenn and McCain were cleared of the allegations.

Despite these allegations, he remained from 1989 until his retirement from the Senate in 1995 Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs ( U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ).

Later he went into the private sector and is there since 2001 as a board member of the insurance group WellPoint Health Networks operates. In addition, he is involved in the Bilderberg Conference as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. Finally, he was also a member of the advisory board of the Close Up Foundation, an organization dedicated to information and participation of citizens in a democracy.

Flint (Michigan) United States congressional delegations from Michigan Savings and loan crisis Michigan Territory William Woodbridge Solomon Sibley Gabriel Richard Austin Eli Wing John Biddle (Michigan politician) George W. Jones Isaac E. Crary Jacob M. Howard Robert McClelland (American politician) Alexander W. Buel Ebenezer J. Penniman David Stuart (Michigan politician) William Alanson Howard George B. Cooper Bradley F. Granger Fernando C. Beaman Henry Waldron Moses W. Field Alpheus S. Williams John Stoughton Newberry Henry W. Lord William C. Maybury John Logan Chipman Levi T. Griffin John Blaisdell Corliss Alfred Lucking Edwin Denby (politician) Frank Ellsworth Doremus George P. Codd Robert H. Clancy John B. Sosnowski George G. Sadowski Rudolph G. Tenerowicz Lucien N. Nedzi John Conyers Bart Stupak John Smith Chipman Edward Bradley (politician) Charles E. Stuart David A. Noble Charles Upson William L. Stoughton Edwin Willits Nathaniel B. Eldredge Edward P. Allen James S. Gorman George Spalding Henry C. Smith Charles E. Townsend William Wedemeyer Mark R. Bacon Earl C. Michener John C. Lehr George Meader Weston E. Vivian Bill Huizenga James B. Hunt James L. Conger Samuel Clark David S. Walbridge Francis William Kellogg John W. Longyear Austin Blair George Willard Jonas H. McGowan Edward S. Lacey Alfred Milnes Albert M. Todd Washington Gardner John M. C. Smith Arthur B. Williams Joseph L. Hooper Henry M. Kimball Verner Main Paul W. Shafer August E. Johansen Paul H. Todd, Jr. Garry E. Brown Howard Wolpe Paul B. Henry Vern Ehlers Hestor L. Stevens George Washington Peck DeWitt C. Leach Rowland E. Trowbridge Thomas W. Ferry Wilder D. Foster Allen Potter Edwin W. Keightley George L. Yaple Henry F. Thomas Edward L. Hamilton John C. Ketcham George Ernest Foulkes Clare Hoffman J. Edward Hutchinson David Stockman Mark D. Siljander Fred Upton Augustus C. Baldwin William B. Williams (politician) John W. Stone George W. Webber Julius Houseman Charles C. Comstock Melbourne H. Ford Charles E. Belknap George F. Richardson William Alden Smith Edwin F. Sweet Carl E. Mapes Bartel J. Jonkman Gerald Ford Richard Vander Veen Harold S. Sawyer James A. Barcia Dale Kildee Dan Kildee John F. Driggs Randolph Strickland Jabez G. Sutherland George H. Durand Mark S. Brewer Oliver L. Spaulding Edwin B. Winans (politician) Byron G. Stout David D. Aitken Samuel William Smith Patrick H. Kelley Grant M. Hudson Seymour H. Person Claude E. Cady William W. Blackney Andrew J. Transue Kit Clardy Donald Hayworth Charles E. Chamberlain Milton Robert Carr James Whitney Dunn John Tyler Rich Ezra C. Carleton Justin Rice Whiting Horace G. Snover Edgar Weeks Henry McMorran Jesse P. Wolcott Robert J. McIntosh John C. Mackie Nick Smith (U.S. politician) Joe Schwarz Tim Walberg Mark Schauer Nathan B. Bradley Charles C. Ellsworth Roswell G. Horr Timothy E. Tarsney Henry M. Youmans William S. Linton Ferdinand Brucker Bird J. Vincent Michael J. Hart Fred L. Crawford Alvin Morell Bentley R. James Harvey J. Bob Traxler Dick Chrysler Debbie Stabenow Mike Rogers (Michigan politician) Jay Abel Hubbell Byron M. Cutcheon Harrison H. Wheeler John W. Moon Roswell P. Bishop James C. McLaughlin Harry W. Musselwhite Albert J. Engel Ruth Thompson Guy Vander Jagt Joe Knollenberg Gary Peters (politician) Herschel H. Hatch Spencer O. Fisher Frank W. Wheeler Thomas A. E. Weadock Rousseau Owen Crump Henry H. Aplin George A. Loud Roy O. Woodruff Gilbert A. Currie Elford Albin Cederberg Bill Schuette Edward Breitung Seth C. Moffatt Henry W. Seymour Samuel M. Stephenson John Avery (politician) Archibald B. Darragh Francis H. Dodds Francis O. Lindquist Frank D. Scott Frank P. Bohn Prentiss M. Brown John F. Luecke Frederick Van Ness Bradley Charles E. Potter Victor A. Knox Raymond F. Clevenger Philip Ruppe Robert William Davis David Curson Carlos D. Shelden H. Olin Young William Josiah MacDonald W. Frank James Frank Eugene Hook John B. Bennett John Dingell Charles Archibald Nichols Clarence J. McLeod Vincent M. Brennan Howard A. Coffin George W. Crockett, Jr. Barbara-Rose Collins William D. Ford Lynn N. Rivers Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Hansen Clarke Carl M. Weideman Louis C. Rabaut Harold F. Youngblood Harold M. Ryan Dennis M. Hertel John D. Dingell, Sr. John Lesinski, Sr. John Lesinski, Jr. Charles G. Oakman Martha Griffiths William M. Brodhead William Broomfield Robert J. Huber James Blanchard Neil Staebler Billie S. Farnum Jack H. McDonald Augustus Seymour Porter Lewis Cass Thomas Fitzgerald (American politician) Zachariah Chandler Henry P. Baldwin Francis B. Stockbridge John Patton, Jr. John Norvell Alpheus Felch Thomas W. Palmer James McMillan (politician) Truman Handy Newberry Patrick V. McNamara Carl Levin

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