Lloyd M Bentsen

US Representative and Senator from Texas; Clinton's first Treasury Secretary

(uncle of Ken Bentsen), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born in Mission, Tex., February 11, 1921; attended the public schools; graduated, University of Texas Law School at Austin 1942 and was admitted to the bar the same year; served in the United States Army Air Forces 1942-1945, attaining rank of major; awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; entered the private practice of law in McAllen, Tex., in 1945; county judge of Hidalgo County 1946-1948; elected in 1948 as a Democrat in to the Eighty-first Congress and, at a special election on December 4, 1948, to fill the vacancy in the Eightieth Congress caused by the death of Milton H. West; reelected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses and served from December 4, 1948, to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954; founded and operated a financial holding company in Texas; elected as a Democrat in 1970 to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1971; reelected in 1976, 1982, and 1988, and served until his resignation on January 20, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1976; chairman, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Committee on Finance (One Hundredth through One Hundred Second Congresses); Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States 1988; Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-1994; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 11, 1999; was a resident of Houston, Texas, at the time of his death on May 23, 2006; interment in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston, Texas.

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Donor	Common Recipients
John M O'Quinn	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White, Victor M Morales
Lisa Blue Baron	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Victor M Morales
Audre Rapoport	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Bill White
Bernard Rapoport	Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White
Ben Barnes	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Kerry, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas
Arthur Louis Schechter	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White
Fred Baron	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Victor M Morales
Walter Umphrey	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White, Victor M Morales
Cappy McGarr	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White
Melanie Barnes	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Kerry, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Democratic Party of Texas
Harry M Reasoner	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Tom Daschle, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White
Michael B Levy	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Bill White
Scott J Atlas	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Tom Daschle, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White
Jess T Hay	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Ken Bentsen, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Victor M Morales
Domingo A Garcia	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White, Victor M Morales
Frank Branson	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Richard Joel Noriega, Democratic Party of Texas
Thomas Boggs	Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Bill White
Russell Budd	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White, Victor M Morales
Steve Farber	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Fritz Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Bill White
Craig Hall	Ronald Kirk, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Kerry, Nicholas V Lampson, Ron Wyden, Tom Daschle, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Bob Graham, Democratic Party of Texas, Bill White

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Types	Person, Political Candidate, Elected Representative, Business Person, Lobbyist, Public Official, Lawyer
Aliases	Lloyd Bentsen, Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr

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