William Roth was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party.
20 Facts About William Roth
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William Roth served from 1967 to 1970 as the lone US Representative from Delaware and from 1971 to 2001 as a US Senator from Delaware.
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William Roth is the most recent Republican to have served as a US Senator from Delaware.
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William Roth attended public schools in Helena, Montana, graduating from Helena High School.
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William Roth started college at Montana State University before moving on to graduate from the University of Oregon in 1943, Harvard Business School in 1947, and Harvard Law School in 1949.
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William Roth married Jane Richards in 1965 and they had two children, William III and Katharine.
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William Roth was US District Court judge, for the District of Delaware from 1985 until 1991 and since was a judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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William Roth voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
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William Roth then began his five terms in the United States Senate, succeeding the retiring incumbent senator John J Williams.
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William Roth served in the US Senate from January 1,1971, having been appointed when Williams left office two days early, until January 3,2001, having been defeated in the 2000 election by the Democratic candidate, Governor Tom Carper.
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William Roth was a longtime member of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Finance, serving as Chairman from September 12,1995 through January 3,2001.
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William Roth was best remembered as a strong advocate of tax cuts, and he co-authored the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, known as the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut with Jack Kemp.
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William Roth was the legislative sponsor of the individual retirement account plan that bears his name, the William Roth IRA.
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William Roth was one of the few Republicans to vote for the Brady Bill and the ban on semi-automatic weapons.
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William Roth served as the President of NATO's parliament, the North Atlantic Assembly, from 1996 to 1998.
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In 1977, William Roth was one of nine senators to vote against the Senate adopting a stringent code of ethics intended to assist with the restoration of public confidence in Congress.
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On December 2,1981, William Roth was one of four senators to vote against an amendment to President Reagan's MX missiles proposal that would divert the silo system by $334 million as well as earmark further research for other methods that would allow giant missiles to be based.
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William Roth voted in favor of the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr.
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William Roth voted in favor of the nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court.
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William Roth died in Washington, DC, of heart failure on December 13,2003, at the age of 82.