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Doug Walgren | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's18th district | |
| In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1991 | |
| Preceded by | John Heinz |
| Succeeded by | Rick Santorum |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Douglas Walgren (1940-12-28)December 28, 1940 (age 84) Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) Stanford University (LLB) |
Douglas Walgren (born December 28, 1940) is an American attorney and politician who served as aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania from 1977 to 1991.
Walgren was born inRochester, New York, and grew up inMount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He graduated fromDartmouth College in 1963, and received his LL.B. fromStanford University in 1966. While at Stanford, he roomed off-campus with Dr.K. Barry Sharpless, who went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in chemistry.
Walgren was staff attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1968, and then he engaged in private practice in Pittsburgh from 1969 to 1972. He served as corporate counsel for Behavioral Research Laboratories, Inc. inPalo Alto, California, from 1973 to 1975.
He was elected in1976 as a Democrat to the95th and to the six succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1990. Walgren was defeated byRick Santorum, who, four years later, was elected Pennsylvania's juniorUnited States senator.
In 1992, during theHouse banking scandal, Walgren, was found to have bounced 858 checks from the U.S. House bank, some of which were more than 16 months overdue during his time in the congress.[1]
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 18th congressional district 1977–1991 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded byas Former U.S. Representative | Order of precedence of the United States as Former U.S. Representative | Succeeded byas Former U.S. Representative |
