A resolution relative to the death of the Honorable Mike Mansfield, formerly a Senator from the State of Montana.

Expresses the condolences of the Senate on the death of Honorable Mike Mansfield, formerly a Senator from Montana.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 169 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 169

   Relative to the death of the Honorable Mike Mansfield, formerly a 
                   Senator from the State of Montana.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 9, 2001

 Mr. Daschle (for himself, Mr. Lott, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Burns, Mr. Byrd, 
 Mr. Stevens, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Hollings, Mr. 
   Leahy, Mr. Reid, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Allard, Mr. Allen, Mr. Bayh, Mr. 
Bennett, Mr. Biden, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Bond, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Breaux, Mr. 
Brownback, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Campbell, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Carnahan, Mr. 
    Carper, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Cleland, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Cochran, Ms. 
Collins, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Craig, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Dayton, Mr. 
 DeWine, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Edwards, 
Mr. Ensign, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. 
 Frist, Mr. Graham, Mr. Gramm, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Hagel, Mr. 
   Harkin, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Helms, Mr. Hutchinson, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. 
 Inhofe, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Kyl, Ms. 
   Landrieu, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Lugar, Mr. 
 McCain, Mr. McConnell, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Miller, Mr. Murkowski, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Nickles, Mr. 
  Reed, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. 
  Schumer, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, Mr. 
Smith of Oregon, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Specter, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Thomas, Mr. 
Thompson, Mr. Torricelli, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. Warner, Mr. Wellstone, and 
Mr. Wyden) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Relative to the death of the Honorable Mike Mansfield, formerly a 
                   Senator from the State of Montana.

Whereas Mike Mansfield, the son of Irish immigrants, was born in 1903 in New 
        York City and raised in Great Falls, Montana;
Whereas Mike Mansfield was the youngest Montanan to serve in World War One, 
        having enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of fourteen;
Whereas Mike Mansfield spent eight years working in the copper mines of Montana;
Whereas Mike Mansfield, at the urging of his wife Maureen, concentrated his 
        efforts on education, obtaining both his high school diploma and B.A. 
        degree in 1933, an M.A. in 1934, and became a professor of history at 
        the University of Montana at Missoula, where he taught until 1952;
Whereas Mike Mansfield was elected to the House of Representatives in 1943 and 
        served the State of Montana with distinction until his election to 
        United States Senate in 1952;
Whereas Mike Mansfield further served the State of Montana and his country in 
        the Senate from 1952 to 1976, where he held the position of Majority 
        Leader from 1961 to 1976, longer than any Leader before or since;
Whereas Mike Mansfield continued to serve his country under both Democratic and 
        Republican administrations in the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and 
        Plenipotentiary to Japan from 1977 to 1989; and
Whereas Mike Mansfield was a man of integrity, decency, and honor, who was loved 
        and admired by this Nation: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep 
regret the announcement of the death of the Honorable Mike Mansfield, 
formerly a Senator from the State of Montana; and be it further
    Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit an enrolled 
copy thereof to the family of the deceased; and be it further
    Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it stand adjourned 
as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Senator.
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