Dan Rostenkowski

A Representative from Illinois. Born in Chicago, Ill. , January 2, 1928. Graduated from St. John's Military Academy in 1946 and attended Loyola University. Served in Korea with the United States Infantry 1946-1948. Served in the State house of representatives in the sixty-eighth general assembly in 1952. Delegate, Illinois State Democratic convention every four years since 1952. Delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976. Member of State senate, 1954-1956. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1995). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Congress. Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Third Congresses), Joint Committee on Taxation (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred First Congresses). Convicted on April 10, 1996, of mail fraud. Full pardon granted by President William J. Clinton on December 22, 2000. Died on August 11, 2010, in Powers Lake, Wis. Interment at St. Adalbert Cemetery, Niles, Ill.