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Thomas E. Petri
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Republican
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U.S. Representative 6th
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Of WISCONSIN
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BIO INFORMATION
PETRI, Thomas Evert, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Marinette, Marinette
County, Wis., May 28, 1940; graduated from Lowell P. Goodrich High School, Fond
du Lac, Wis., 1958; A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1962; J.D.,
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1965; clerk to United States Judge James
Doyle of the Western District of Wisconsin, 1965; lawyer, private practice;
Peace Corps volunteer, 1966-1967; White House aide, 1969-1970; member of the
Wisconsin state senate, 1973-1979; delegate to the Republican state
conventions, 1973 to present; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United
States Senate in 1974; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth Congress to
fill the vacancy due to the death of United States Representative William A.
Steiger, and reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (April 3,
1979-present).
Source:bioguide.congress.gov
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U.S. Representative
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1979
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2010
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Wisconsin
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6
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