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Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lowell Weicker is considering a rematch to Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 election cycle. Weicker is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School, Yale University (class of 1953), and the University of Virginia Law School. Weicker's political career appeared to be over after his 1988 defeat for reelection to the Senate by Joseph Lieberman, but two years later he ran for Governor of Connecticut as a member of A Connecticut Party against Republican John Rowland and Democrat Bruce Morrison. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lowell_P._Weicker,_Jr.   (738 words)

AP881103-0008 Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., suddenly battling for his political life in a race that many thought just weeks ago would be a walkaway, is flooding Connecticut's airwaves with a series of ads striking back at his aggressive Democratic challenger. 1, Lowell Weicker would have won, and No. 2, it will be the first nail in the coffin of the negative campaign that has become the vogue in America,'' Weicker said just days before the first poll showed his big lead had evaporated. Weicker, known as a maverick who bolts from the GOP rank-and-file on a range of social and foreign policy issues, has built one of the most successful political careers in Connecticut history by forging a delicate base of Republican voters, independents and Democrats swayed by his leadership role on civil rights and other social issues. ils.unc.edu /~viles/172i/users/big/docs/AP881103-0008   (749 words)

courant.com Weicker: Anti-War Candidate? Weicker, who served three terms in the Senate as a Republican maverick and then made a political comeback with his election as governor in 1990 as a third-party candidate, said he is past seeking revenge for his loss in 1988. Weicker, who is president of the Trust for America's Health, spoke to the Rotary about the nation's lack of preparation for a possible flu pandemic. Weicker has been out of politics since leaving the governor's office in January 1995 after a single term marked by the adoption of a broad-based state income tax. courant.com /news/politics/hc-weicker1206.artdec06,0,5292517.story?...   (890 words)

National Review: Weicker returns. (former senator Lowell P. Weic... @ HighBeam Research It was Watergate that made Lowell Weicker a national champion of political rectitude. During all of this Weicker had discouraged rebellion at home by patiently explaining that for a Republican to succeed in the current political climate he had to tack to the left, since Connecticut's voters were mostly Democrats and unaffiliated. Weicker, Lieberman noted, frequently missed Senate votes because he was off giving paid speeches to special-interest groups, collecting substantial fees from military contractors, corporations, and groups like the State of Israel Bonds Committee. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:9284671&...   (2068 words)

Weicker mulls independent presidential bid in 2000 - July 6, 1999 Weicker said he expects to make a decision within the next few months, after considering the effect on his family. Weicker served three terms in the U.S. Senate but lost in 1988 to conservative Democrat Joseph I. Lieberman after his maverick streak annoyed his fellow Connecticut Republicans. "All of us who are independents have a common bond, in that we feel that the Republicans and the Democrats have had a monopoly for too long and it's beginning to wear rather thin," Weicker told The Associated Press on Tuesday. edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/07/06/president.2000/weicker   (572 words)

[Reporter:June:95] Dean's Awards Presented At Council Meeting Herbert and Florence Irving and former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Herbert Pardes, vice president and dean, center, is flanked by Florence and Herbert Irving, left, and Claudia and Lowell Weicker Jr., right, at the Columbia-Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council meeting in April. Weicker built Congressional support for the National Institutes of Health and maintained federal funding for a range of significant health incentives, from primary health care and family planning to care for AIDS patients. cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/reporter/archives/repo_v6n3_0008.html   (495 words)

The Connecticut Post Online - News If Weicker — who was governor under the independent A Connecticut Party appellation after his split from the GOP — were to challenge Lieberman, it would reprise their contentious 1988 election. Weicker's potential candidacy won a chuckle and vow of support Monday from John Orman, the Fairfield University professor who ran a brief primary campaign against Lieberman this year but dropped out in September after raising very little money. Weicker is best known for helping pressure President Nixon's 1974 resignation and pushing through Connecticut's personal income tax in 1991. www.connpost.com /news/ci_3282819   (654 words)

The Books: Maverick by Lowell Weicker and Barry Sussman n this remarkable autobiography, former Connecticut governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., recounts the bruising battles and tangible achievements of his maverick career in politics. Lowell Weicker has been a prominent figure on the American political scene since the early 1970s, when he first gained notoriety by fearlessly interrogating members of his own Republican party during the Watergate hearings. Over the years, Lowell Weicker has always loved a good fight, and in this engrossing memoir, he looks back on a lifetime of political battles -- over Watergate, protection of the oceans and marine research, the rights of the handicapped, right-wing assaults on the Constitution, and more. www.twbookmark.com /books/43/0316928143   (257 words)

weicker.txt FORMER U.S. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 21 -- Former U.S. Sen. and Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who considered an independent run for the presidency last year, is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia this semester. Weicker also sponsored laws to protect the rights of the disabled and was one of the principal authors of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He began his political career in 1962, when he was elected as a member of Connecticut's House of Representatives. www.virginia.edu /topnews/textonlyarchive/January_1997/weicker.txt   (198 words)

The Weicker Connection D'Amore has advised Connecticut's independent governor, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., as well as an independent candidate for the presidency." Former Reagan budget director David Stockman, speaking about Lowell Weicker, said Weicker was "one of the biggest spenders to bother calling himself a Republican in [the 20th] century." In 1991, as governor of Connecticut, Weicker pushed through the first-ever income tax in the state after striking a budget spending cap deal with his General Assembly. www.baconsrebellion.com /Issues05/03-14/Sisson2.htm   (1009 words)

blogrunner: Weicker May Return to Politics Over Lieberman's Support of War In addition, Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. NYT reported Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Someone put the bug in the ear of former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker to run against Lieberman in 2006: annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com /snapshot/D/2/3/43954D3D0B79B423   (1314 words)

The Irish Trojan's blog - Brendan Loy's homepage This week...former [Connecticut] Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Weicker then became an independent and was elected governor in 1990 on the "A Connecticut Party" ballot line... It was Weicker -- then a liberal Republican incumbent senator -- who Lieberman successfully challenged (basically from the right, if I'm not mistaken) to win the first of his three terms in the Senate in 1988. www.brendanloy.com /2005/12/lieberman-weicker-ii.html   (1071 words)

Politics1: Presidency 2000 - The Reform Party Candidates Weicker also made an aborted run for the GOP Presidential nomination in 1980 and briefly flirted with making an Independent bid for the White House in 1996 before endorsing President Clinton for re-election. Weicker -- a Yale educated lawyer and former Congressman (1968-70), US Senator (1970-88) and Governor (1990-94) -- spent most of his political career as a moderate Republican. In October 1999, Weicker announced that he would not seek the Reform Party nomination because he did not want to get in the middle of the "food fight" between the Perot-Buchanan and Ventura-Gargan forces. www.politics1.com /reform.htm   (4495 words)

The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: LOWELL'S HOUSE On Thursday, the Harvard community was treated to a visit by former Connecticut Governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr. In his remarks at the Kennedy School, Weicker was generous enough to offer the audience an assessment of his own potential as a presidential candidate. Having done his damage in Connecticut, Weicker may now be turning his attention to the national political scene. www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=150940   (300 words)

Federal grant extends life of clinical research center - February 1, 1999 The center is named after Lowell P. Weicker Jr., former U.S. senator and Connecticut governor, a strong proponent of government funding for medical and scientific research. A $9 million grant - one of the largest in the history of the UConn Health Center - will enable the work of the Lowell P. Weicker Jr. The Weicker Clinical Research Center employs about 25 full- and part-time workers who are registered nurses, research assistants, data managers, finance and accounting experts, core laboratory technicians, biostatisticians and more. www.advance.uconn.edu /1999/990201/02019901.htm   (450 words)

Remarks by Sandra Swift Parrino and Lowell Weicker, Jr. on the 14th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 20th Anniversary of the NCD - July 24, 2004 Today, we honor one of those extraordinary individuals—former Governor of Connecticut and U.S. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.—for his preeminent role in helping make the ADA a reality and for making NCD an independent federal agency. Remarks by Sandra Swift Parrino and Lowell Weicker, Jr. It is a special privilege for me to introduce our guest speaker, the Honorable Lowell P. Weicker, former US Senator and former Governor of the great state of Connecticut. www.ncd.gov /newsroom/testimony/2004/parrino-weicker_07-24-04.htm   (1721 words)

Weicker Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Independent, of Greenwich, Connecticut www.gwu.edu /~action/weic.html   (30 words)

Business Wire: Duty Free International, Inc. adds Lowell P. We... @ HighBeam Research RIDGEFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1997--Duty Free International today announced that Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., former Governor of Connecticut until January, 1995, has joined Duty Free International, Inc., as a member of its Board of Directors. Duty Free International, Inc. adds Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. In 1988, Governor Weicker received the Albert Lasker Public Service Award for his work on behalf of the National Institute of Health and the country's medical research community. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:18995369&refid=ink_tptd_np   (258 words)

officers Weicker served as Governor of the State of Connecticut from 1991 to 1995. Weicker also serves as a director of Compuware Corporation, HPSC, Inc., Phoenix Mutual Funds and UST Inc. He served as a United States Senator representing the State of Connecticut from 1970 to 1988. www.bsu.edu /web/jkmorrison/officers5.html   (494 words)

StockSelector.com Insider Transactions for UST WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 08, 1999 (States via COMTEX) -- Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 09, 1999 (States via COMTEX) -- John P. Clancey of Greenwich, CT, a Director of UST Inc. (SYMBOL: UST), accumulated 1,000 shares for $27.56 each on November 08, 1999. www.stockselector.com /sec.asp?symbol=UST   (87 words)

Find in a Library: [Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., senator from Connecticut, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front [Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., senator from Connecticut, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front Find in a Library: [Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., senator from Connecticut, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/4b748fe010578b35a19afeb4da09e526.html   (72 words)

The new educational divide csmonitor.com • Lowell P. Weicker Jr., former governor and US senator from Connecticut, is chairman of The Century Foundation task force on the common school. The political obstacles are formidable, but the stakes are too high not to take action in the best interests of our children. www.csmonitor.com /2002/1009/p09s02-coop.htm   (864 words)

Keyword Anti-Bush Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Endorses Howard Dean for President Nine years after he last held office, 23 years after his own brief and—not surprisingly—unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Lowell P. Weicker Jr. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker said Monday that Sen. Joe Lieberman deserves a stiff challenge in his bid for re-election next year - but it won't come from Weicker. www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=weicker   (770 words)

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Lowell Weicker Gets Mad -- Jul. 09, 1973 It was late in a long day, and Connecticut Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., the junior man on the Ervin committee, was just beginning his second go-round with Star Witness Dean. TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Lowell Weicker Gets Mad -- Jul. 09, 1973 www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,907491,00.html   (86 words)

U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship • 98th Congress, 1983-84 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr (R-Conn.) • 99th Congress, 1985-86 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr (R-Conn.) • 97th Congress, 1981-82 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr (R-Conn.) sbc.senate.gov /democrat/history.cfm   (520 words)

U.S. Senate: Senators Home > State Information > Connecticut Oliver Ellsworth (PRO-ADMIN,F) James Hillhouse (F) Samuel W. Dana (F) Elijah Boardman (R) Henry W. Edwards (JR, J) Samuel A. Foot (ADAMS, AJ) senate.gov /pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/connecticut.htm   (423 words)

Medallion Financial - Recent Articles - servicing loans, loan business MEDALLION FINANCIAL Corp. (New York) - This provider of lending services to the taxi industry and to a range of small business, as well as a marketed of taxi-top advertising, appointed former Connecticut governor and three-term senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., 71, to its board. He fills the seat vacated by Fredrick Hammer, 66. Medallion Financial - Recent Articles - servicing loans, loan business www.medallionfinancial.com /news_articles_4-29-03.htm   (64 words)

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr - Speech - American Reform Party - 10-2-99 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr - Speech - American Reform Party - 10-2-99 WE ENJOY UNLIMITED HITS WHILE THEY DO ALL THE WORK www.americanreform.org /convention/weicker-speech.html   (1608 words)

Chap023d.htm The initial appointees shall include all members of the Governor's Council for Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs established by Executive Order No. Ten of Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. The terms of such initial appointees shall expire on January 31, 1995. www.cga.ct.gov /2001/pub/Chap023d.htm   (416 words)

The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Weele to Weinland 1931) — also known as Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, politicalgraveyard.com /bio/weems-weinland.html   (1257 words)

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