Pat Deluhery, Steve Dunn

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Pat Deluhery and the Golden Age of Democratic Party Activism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Memoir of Pat Deluhery, former Iowa state senator and assistant for U.S. Sen. Harold Hughes from 1968 to 1974. Author covers his high school days in Davenport, Iowa; his education at Notre Dame and the London School of Economics; working on Hughes' campaign for the Senate in 1968 and his time in D.C.; his legislative accomplishments during his 24-year tenure in the Iowa Senate; and how 19th century Iowa became 20th century Iowa. Deluhery also looks at what life was like for his Irish Catholic family in the 1940s and 1950s; the Catholic Church's social justice message; and his encounters with John, Robert and Ted Kennedy along with several other notable Democratic politicians of the era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Patrick Deluhery
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780578583150
• Artikelnr.: 60575780

Autorenporträt

Pat Deluhery worked on Gov. Harold Hughes' successful campaign for the U.S. Senate before moving to Washington, D.C. to work in Hughes' office from 1969 to 1975. He then worked eight months in Sen. John Culver's office and returned to St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, as an assistant professor. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in November 1978 and served until December 2002. He graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and the London School of Economics in London, England. He and his wife, Mardi, have three daughters and three grandchildren.