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Richard Andrew Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Gephardt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from South West High School in 1958. He earned his B.S. at Northwestern University in 1962 and earned his J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.
In 1965, he was admitted to the Missouri bar. He then entered the Missouri Air National Guard, where he served until 1971. He was Democratic committeeman in St. Louis between 1968 and 1971, moving up to alderman 1971-1976. He was elected as a Democrat to the 95th succeeding CongressThe United States Congress is the legislative branch of the United States federal government. The structure and responsibilities of Congress are defined in Article One of the United States Constitution. The United States Congress is bicameral, meaning tha, and was repeatedly re-elected until he chose to not to run for re-election in 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democraticlogo depicts a stylized donkey in red, white, and blue. The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. The Party is currently the minority in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, as w presidential nomination in 1988The United States presidential elections determine who becomes the President of the United States. For the current U. election see U. presidential election, 2004 How elections are administered The election of the United States President is governed by Sec. He was majority leader from 1989 to 1994 (101st through 103rd Congresses) and minority leaderThe Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives serves as floor leader of the "loyal opposition," and is the minority counterpart to the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives. List of Minority Leaders of the Unite from 1995 to 2003 (104th through 107th Congresses).
He announced his second run for Presidentcartogram, in which the sizes of counties have been rescaled according to their population. presidential election of 2004 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2. The Republican candidate, George W. Bush won re-election to the presidency, based on on January 5January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year (361 in leap years). Events 1463 Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris. 1477 Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy beco, 2003, dropping out a year later after his fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucusIn the United States, the 2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses (held January 19) were the first major test of some of the leading contenders for the Democratic Party's nomination as its candidate for the 2004 presidential election. Despite the extremely small nu.
Although he dropped out of the running for President, Gephardt was mentioned as a possible running mate for John Kerry. On March 7, 2004 New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, seen as a strong possibility for the position himself, endorsed Gephardt for the Vice Presidency. "I think he's the best candidate," Richardson said of Gephardt in an interview with The Associated Press. "There's a good regional balance with Kerry and Gephardt." Nevertheless, Kerry announced that he had chosen John Edwards as his running mate on July 6, 2004. (Although on that same day the New York Post published an incorrect headline stating that Gephardt had become Kerry's runningmate.) Shortly after this false story broke, the headline was compared to the 1948 "Dewey defeats Truman" front page of the Chicago Tribune, which falsely reported the presidential election results of that year.
