1. Dennis Webster DeConcini is an American lawyer, philanthropist, politician and former US senator from Arizona.
16 Facts About Dennis DeConcini
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Dennis DeConcini was born in Tucson, Arizona, the son of Ora and Evo Anton Dennis DeConcini.
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Dennis DeConcini's father was judge on the Arizona State Superior Court for 10 years, then served as the Arizona Attorney General for one two-year term from 1948 to 1949 before being appointed to the Arizona State Supreme Court, where he served as a judge for four years, from 1949 to 1953.
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Dennis DeConcini received his bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in 1959, and his LLB from the University of Arizona in 1963.
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Dennis DeConcini then worked as a lawyer for the Arizona Governor's staff from 1965 to 1967.
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Dennis DeConcini attended The JAG School at the University of Virginia and entered US Army JAG Corps.
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Dennis DeConcini rejoined the law firm of DeConcini McDonald Yetwin and Lacy, which he and his father had co-founded in 1968, after leaving the Senate in 1995.
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Dennis DeConcini is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Dennis DeConcini served one elected term as Pima County, Arizona, Attorney, the chief prosecutor and civil attorney for the county and school districts within the county.
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Dennis DeConcini was elected to the US Senate in 1976 as a Democrat, defeated Republican representative Sam Steiger for the open seat left by retiring Republican senator Paul Fannin.
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Dennis DeConcini was widely noted as a member of the Keating Five in a banking and political contribution ethics investigation during the 1980s which grew out of the US Savings and Loan Crisis.
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Dennis DeConcini served on the Subcommittees on Defense, Energy and Water Development and Foreign Operations, and on the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairing the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks.
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Dennis DeConcini served on the Subcommittees on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights, the Constitution and the Courts.
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In 1993 and 1994, Dennis DeConcini chaired the Select Intelligence Committee.
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In February 1995 Dennis DeConcini was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, where he served until May 1999.
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Dennis DeConcini served on the board of directors of the Corrections Corporation of America from 2008 to 2014.