"Arizona Senator" Dennis DeConcini Hand Signed TLS Dated 1987 Todd Mueller COA

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"Arizona Senator" Dennis DeConcini Hand Signed TLS Dated 1987. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Dennis Webster DeConcini
/ˌdiːkənˈsiːni/
(born May 8, 1937) is an American lawyer, philanthropist, politician and former
Democratic
U.S. Senator
from
Arizona
. The son of former Arizona Supreme Court Judge
Evo Anton DeConcini
, he represented
Arizona
in the
United States Senate
from 1977 until 1995. After his
re-election in 1988
, no Arizona Democrats were elected to the
United States Senate
for 30 years until
Kyrsten Sinema
in
2018
. DeConcini was born in Tucson, Arizona, the son of Ora (née Webster) and
Evo Anton DeConcini
.
His father was Judge on the Arizona State Superior Court for 10 years, then served as the
Arizona Attorney General
for one two-year term from 1948-49 before being appointed to the Arizona State Supreme Court where he served as a Judge for four years from 1949–53. DeConcini received his bachelor's degree from the
University of Arizona
in 1959, and his LLB from the University of Arizona in 1963. He then worked as a lawyer for the Arizona Governor's staff from 1965-67. Dennis DeConcini rejoined the law firm of DeConcini McDonald Yetwin and Lacy, which he and his father had co-founded in 1968, after leaving the Senate in 1995.
He is a member of the advisory council of the
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
. DeConcini served one elected term as
Pima County, Arizona
Attorney (1973–1976), the chief prosecutor and civil attorney for the county and school districts within the county.
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in
1976
as a
Democrat
, defeated
Republican
Representative
Sam Steiger
for the open seat left by retiring Republican Senator
Paul Fannin
. DeConcini served three terms (1976-1994) in the Senate. DeConcini sponsored an amendment (the DeConcini Reservation) to the
Panama Canal Treaty
of 1977 which allows the United States "to take such steps as each [the U.S. or Panama] deems necessary, in accordance with its constitutional processes, including the use of military force in the Republic of Panama, to reopen the Canal or restore the operations of the Canal, as the case may be." DeConcini was widely noted as a member of the
Keating Five
in a banking and political contribution ethics investigation during the 1980s which grew out of the
U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis
. The Senate investigation involved
Charles Keating
and
Lincoln Savings
/Continental Homes, the sixth largest employer in the state of Arizona at the time. The Senate Ethics Committee looked into the actions of five United States Senators in relation to their actions connected with Charles Keating and concluded that Senators DeConcini, McCain, Glenn and Riegle "broke no laws or Senate ethics rules, but were aggressive in their actions on behalf of Charles Keating." DeConcini did not run for a fourth term. In the
101st Congress
, DeConcini served on the
Senate Appropriations Committee
, chairing the Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government. He also served on the Subcommittees on Defense, Energy and Water Development and Foreign Operations, and on the
Senate Judiciary Committee
, chairing the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. He served on the Subcommittees on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights, the Constitution and the Courts.
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