Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (born January 23, 1924) is an American businessman and Democratic Party politician. Now the senior United States Senator from New Jersey, he is in his fifth non-consecutive term in office, first serving from 1982 to 2001, and again since 2003.
He is the only current senator to have returned to office after having retired from the Senate. Lautenberg is the second oldest member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virgi...
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Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (born January 23, 1924) is an American businessman and Democratic Party politician. Now the senior United States Senator from New Jersey, he is in his fifth non-consecutive term in office, first serving from 1982 to 2001, and again since 2003.
He is the only current senator to have returned to office after having retired from the Senate. Lautenberg is the second oldest member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Lautenberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Sam and Mollie Lautenberg, poor Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia who had arrived in the United States as infants. Sam, who worked in silk mills, sold coal, farmed and once ran a tavern, died of cancer when Frank was 19. He did not have any formal Jewish education as a child; the family could not afford to join a synagogue and did not live very long in any single place.
Lautenberg served overseas in the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II after graduating from Nutley High...
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