"Wisconsin Senator" Bob Kasten Hand Signed TLS Dated 1986

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ES-4670E Robert Walter Kasten Jr.  (born June 19, 1942) is an American Republican  politician from the state  of Wisconsin  who served as a U.S. Representative  from 1975 to 1979 and as a U.S. Senator  from 1981 to 1993. Kasten was born in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . He attended the Milwaukee Country Day School before graduating in 1960 from The Choate School  (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut , in 1964 from the University of Arizona  in Tucson , and received his M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School  in 1966. He served in the Wisconsin Air National Guard  from 1966 to 1972. Kasten was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate  in 1972. In 1974, he was elected to the House of Representatives  after defeating incumbent Glenn R. Davis  in a Republican  primary election. He was reelected in 1976. He ran for Governor  of Wisconsin  in 1978, but lost the Republican nomination to Lee S. Dreyfus . Kasten ran for the United States Senate  in 1980 and narrowly defeated Democrat  and incumbent  Senator Gaylord Nelson . The victory was propelled in part by the popularity of Ronald Reagan  at the top of the Republican ticket. In the Senate, Kasten was an outspoken conservative . He was the first Republican to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate since Alexander Wiley  left office in 1963 after being defeated in 1962 by Nelson. In 1985, Kasten was arrested and charged with driving under the influence  after a District of Columbia  police officer observed him running a red light and driving on the wrong side of the road. The charges were later dropped.[ In 1986, Kasten narrowly defeated Democrat Ed Garvey  to win a second term after a very bitter campaign, one that was characterized by personal attacks and is remembered as one of the nastiest elections in Wisconsin history. Kasten was defeated by Democratic state Senator Russ Feingold  in 1992. Kasten voted in favor of the bill  establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day  as a federal holiday  and the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987  (as well as to override President Reagan 's veto). Kasten voted in favor of the nominations of Robert Bork  and Clarence Thomas  to the U.S. Supreme Court .  
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