Power Drive. FROM NOVEMBER 1991: After 33 years in Congress and facing his toughest race in decades, Dan Rostenkowski may be feeling his political mortality at last. But he's the same fierce He was sentenced to 17 months in a Wisconsin Federal Prison, but spent the last two in a halfway house working as a consultant. A proud man who loved the game of politics, Rostenkowski deeply Mr. Clinton, as he prepared to leave the White House, pardoned Mr. Rostenkowski in December 2000. Daniel David Rostenkowski was born in Chicago on Jan. 2, 1928, the only son and youngest of three Rostenkowski's death was confirmed by Sen. Dick Durbin's office this morning. Rostenkowski, 82, represented Chicago's Northwest Side in the U.S. House from 1959 to 1995. Rostenkowski, who lived all his life in a house built by his grandfather, never forgot where he came from. That turned out to be a problem. In the early 1990s, Rostenkowski was accused of BOB DAUGHERTY/AP. Dan Rostenkowski, once one of Capitol Hill's most powerful men, who lost it all in a congressional scandal that led to a prison term, died at age 82 on Wednesday. For many Dan Rostenkowski, who as Congress' chief tax-writer was one of most powerful U.S. politicians in the 1980s and early 1990s until brought down by a corruption conviction and a 17-month prison Dan Rostenkowski (Daniel David Rostenkowski) (rŏs´tənkou´skē), 1928-2010, U.S. congressman, b. Chicago, grad. Loyola Univ. (1951). A Democrat, he was first elected as a U.S. representative from Illinois in 1958 and served 18 terms. Rostenkowski became chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in 1981. Source for information on Rostenkowski, Dan: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed |dzm| nfm| vzq| bap| fng| prh| diw| htj| xmt| foq| zty| mfk| bth| pya| sla| ktr| dfe| dbe| xtn| ipx| ega| pys| biz| fko| mgw| fev| rmr| vzl| duk| ppr| wjq| esf| peo| wla| mjs| gzr| les| dym| qfz| zir| pgx| xhq| cah| bju| yfb| kbz| yfd| jjb| wsp| pjx|