Vietnam Veterans in Congress

This list is currently being researched and added to. Please provide additions, deletions, corrections and other information to Dennis Koho at dkoho@willamette.edu

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Note: 54 of the 100 members are veterans.
"#" in front of the name indicates a combat veteran.

• # Daniel K. Akaka (D- HI)
  Army Corps of Engineers, 1945-47

• Robert F. Bennett (R- UT)
  National Guard, 1857-61

• Jeff Bingaman (D- NM)
  Army Reserve, 1968-74

• Bill Bradley (D- NJ)
  Air Force Reserve, 1967-78

• # Hank Brown (R- CO)
  Navy, 1962-66

• Richard H Bryan (D- NV)
  Army, 1959-60

• # Dale Bumpers (D- ARK)
  Marine Corps, 1943-46

• Conrad Burns (R- MT)
  Marine Corps, 1955-57

• # Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R- CO)
  Air Force, 1951-53

• # John H. Chafee (R- RI)
  Marine Corps, 1942-45
  Marine Corps, 1951-52

• Daniel R. Coats (R- IN)
  Army Corps of Engineers, 1966-68

• Thad Cochran (R- MS)
  Navy, 1959-61

• Paul Coverdale (R- GA)
  Army, 1962-64

• Larry E. Craig (R- ID)
  National Guard, 1970-71

• Tom Daschle (D- SD)
  Air Force, 1969-72

• Christopher J. Dodd (D- CT)
  Army Reserve, 1969-75

• # Bob Dole (R- KS)
  Army, 1943-48

• # Jim Exon (D- NEB)
  Army, 1941-45
  Army Reserve, 1945-49

• Lauch Faircloth (R- NC)
  Army, 1954-55

• Wendell H. Ford (D- KY)
  Army, 1945-46
  National Guard, 1949-62

• #John Glenn (D- OH)
  Marine Corps, 1942-65

• Slade Gorton (R-WA)
  Army, 1945-46
  Air Force, 1953-55
  Air Force Reserve, 1956-81

• Tom Harkin (D-IA)
  Navy, 1962-67
  Naval Reserve, 1968-74

• # Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR)
  Navy, 1943-46

• # Howell Heflin (D- ALA)
  Marine Corps, 1942-46

• Jesse Helms (R- NC)
  Navy, 1942-45

• # Ernest F. Hollings (D- SC)
  Army, 1942-45

• James M. Inhofe (R- OK)
  Army, 1954-56

• # Daniel K. Inouye (D- HI)
  Army, 1943-47

• James M. Jeffords (R- VT)
  Navy, 1956-59
  Naval Reserve, 1959-Present

• J. Bennett Johnston (D- LA)
  Army, 1956-59

• Edward M. Kennedy (D-MASS)
  Army, 1951-53

• # Bob Kerry (D-NE)
  Navy, 1966-69

• # John Kerry (D-MASS)
  Navy, 1968-69

• Herb Kohl (D- WI)
  Army Reserve, 1958-64

• Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)
  Army, 1942-46)

• Richard G. Lugar (R- IN)
  Navy, 1957-60)

• # John R. McCain (R- AZ)
  Navy, 1958-81

• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D- NY)
  Naval Reserve. 1944-66)

• Frank H. Murkowski (R- AK)
  Coast Guard, 1955-56

• Don Nickles (R- OK)
  National Guard, 1970-76

• Sam Nunn (D -GA)
  Coast Guard, 1959-60
  Coast Guard Reserve, 1960-66

• # Claiborne Pell (D- RI)
  Coast Guard, 1941-45

• # Larry Pressler (R- SD)
  Army, 1966-68

• # Charles S. Robb (D- VA)
  Marine Corps, 1961-70
  Marine Corps Reserve, 1970-91

• # William V. Roth, Jr. (R-DEL)
  Army, 1943-46

• Paul Simon (D- IL)
  Army, 1951-53

• Alan K. Simpson (R-WYO)
  Army, 1954-56

• # Robert C. Smith (R- NH)
  Navy, 1965-67

• Arlen Specter (R- PA)
  Air Force, 1951-53

• # Ted Stevens (R- AK)
  Army Air Corps, 1943-46

• Craig Thomas (R- WYO)
  Marine Corps, 1955-59

• # Strom Thurmond (R- SC)
  Army, 1942-46
  Army Reserve, 1924-60 (As printed, may be typo)

• # John R. Warner (R- VA)
  Navy, 1944-46
  Marine Corps, 1950-52
  

Additional Information on Vietnam Veterans in the U.S. Senate

Name:......................................... J. Robert "Bob" Kerrey. For bio, click Here
State:......................................... Nebraska (D)
Vietnam Service:.......................... USN, Date, SEALS,
Phone:........................................ (202)
Phone:........................................ (202) (Washington D.C.)
Fax:..............................................
Other:.......................................... Only current member of Congress holding the Congressional Medal of Honor

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Name:......................................... Charles Robb
State:......................................... Virginia (D)
Vietnam Service:.......................... USMC, Date, Organization,
Phone:........................................ (202) 224-4024
Phone:........................................ (202) (Washington D.C.)
Fax:.............................................. (202) 224-6755
Email:........................................... senator_robb@robb.senate.gov Other:..........................................

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