Democratic Senator from Wisconsin

Senator Feingold was born to parents Leon and Sylvia on March 2, 1953. While he was growing up, his father was active in the Progressive Movement.

Education: Janesville Craig High School, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1971; University of Wisconsin, Madison 1975; Rhodes Scholar, Final Honours School of Jurisprudence, Magdalen College, Oxford University, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 1977; Harvard University Law School, Juris Doctor with Honors, 1979.

After graduating from Harvard, he practiced law at Foley & Lardner and La Follette & Sinykin Madison, Wisconsin, till 1985. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1982 and re-elected in1986 and 1990. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and re-elected in 1998. Feingold has two daughters, Jessica and Ellen, and his wife, Mary Feingold, has two sons, Sam and Ted Speerschneider. The Feingolds live in Middleton, Wisconsin His Committees:

His website and contact info is at www.senate.gov/~feingold