Tim Wirth

A Representative and a Senator from Colorado; born in Santa Fe, N.Mex., September 22, 1939; graduated, Harvard University 1961; received a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education 1964; received a doctoral degree from Stanford University 1973; United States Army Reserve 1961-1967; White House fellow 1967-1968; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education 1969-1970; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1975, to January 3, 1987; was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1986, but was elected to the United States Senate for the term ending January 3, 1993; was not a candidate for reelection in 1992; appointed counselor, Department of State, by President William Jefferson Clinton 1993-1997; became president of the United Nations Foundation in 1997.