Robert Joseph Dole is an American retired politician, statesman, and attorney. Dole represented Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. He served as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the party’s vice presidential candidate in the 1976 election. In 2012, Dole unsuccessfully advocated Senate ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Robert Joseph Dole is an American retired politician, statesman, and attorney. Dole represented Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. He served as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the party’s vice presidential candidate in the 1976 election. In 2012, Dole unsuccessfully advocated Senate ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He initially supported Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican primaries, but later became the only former GOP presidential nominee to endorse Donald Trump, after Trump clinched the Republican nomination. He is married to former U. S. Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, and they have a daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, Robert J. “RJ” Dole Jr. Was born on July 22, 1923, in Russell, Kansas, the son of Bina M. and Doran Ray Dole. His father, who had moved the family to Russell shortly before Robert was born, earned money by running a small creamery. He graduated from Russell High School in the spring of 1941 and enrolled at the University of Kansas the following fall. While at KU, he played for the basketball team, the track team, and the football team, earning varsity letters in 1942 and 1944. In April 1945 Dole was seriously wounded by German machine gun fire, being struck in his upper back and right arm by a machine gun machine gun. As his recovery was slow, he wrote an ‘M’ for’morphine’ on his forehead in his own blood, so that nobody else would give him a second dose of morphine.
As a result of this incident, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on January 17, 2018, for his service to his country in World War II. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1971 to 1973. In 1968 he was elected to the Senate, where he served as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1981 to 1985. He led the Senate Republicans from 1985 to his resignation in 1996, and served as Senate Majority Leader from1985 to 1987 and from 1995 to 1996. In his role as Republican leader, he helped defeat President Bill Clinton’s health care plan. In 1996 he won the GOP nomination for president and selected Jack Kemp as his running mate. The Republican ticket lost in the general election to Bill Clinton, making Dole the first unsuccessful major party nominee for both president and vice president. He resigned from the Senate during the 1996 campaign and did not seek public office again after the election. He appeared in numerous commercials and television programs and served on various councils. In 1970 he was bestowed with the Kappa Sigma fraternity’s “Man of the Year” honor. He has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and special counsel at the Washington, D. C., office of law firm Alston & Bird. He and his wife Elizabeth have two daughters, Elizabeth and Elizabeth.
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