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• Herb Kohl is the senior Democratic U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: February 7, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  2. Assumed office: January 3, 1989
  3. Party: Democrat
  4. Alma mater: University of Wisconsin, Harvard University
  5. Previous occupation: Businessman
  6. Family owns Kohl's department stores
  7. Owns the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team
  8. One of the wealthiest U.S. Senators

• Early Life

  Kohl studied business in college, earning a Master's degree from Harvard in the late 1950s. Following a six year stint in the U.S. Army Reserve, Kohl helped establish the department store chain that bears his name.

• Political Career

  Though he wasn't elected to the Senate until 1988, Kohl's political career started much earlier when he was the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin for two years in the mid-'70s. As a Senator, he has served on the Appropriations Committee, the Committee on the Judiciary, and is the Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging.

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