PROXMIRE, William, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Lake Forest, Lake County,
Ill., November 11, 1915; attended the public schools of Lake Forest and the
Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; graduated, Yale University 1938, Harvard Business
School 1940, and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1948; during the
Second World War served in the Military Intelligence Service 1941-1946, member,
Wisconsin State assembly 1951-1952; businessman; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1952, 1954 and 1956; elected in a
special election on August 27, 1957, as a Democrat to the United States Senate
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R. McCarthy, for the term
ending January 3, 1959; reelected in 1958, 1964, 1970, 1976 and 1982, and
served from August 28, 1957, to January 3, 1989; chairman, Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-fourth, Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth,
and One Hundredth Congresses); not a candidate for reelection in 1988; was a
resident of Washington, D.C., until his death on December 15, 2005; interment
in Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Illinois.