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Russell D. Feingold

Official portrait of Russell D. Feingold
Russell D. Feingold
Former U.S. Senator
U.S. Senator WI
Democratic Service: 1993-2011

Democratic
WI
Senate
A Senator from Wisconsin. Born in Janesville, Rock County, Wis. , March 2, 1953. Graduated, Janesville Craig High School 1971. Graduated, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1975. Attended Magdalen College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1977. Graduated, Harvard University Law School 1979. Admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1979 and practiced law in Madison, Wisc. 1979-1985. Visiting professor, Beloit College 1985. Member, Wisconsin State Senate 1983-1993. Elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1992. Reelected in 1998 and again in 2004, and served from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 2011. Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 2010.