Everything about Bob Kasten totally explained
Robert Walter "Bob" Kasten, Jr. (born
June 19,
1942), is a
legislator from the
state of
Wisconsin, who served as a
U.S. representative from 1975 to 1979 and as a
U.S. senator from 1981 to 1993.
Kasten was born in
Milwaukee. He attended
Choate Rosemary Hall in
Wallingford, Connecticut, where he received a high school diploma in 1960. He graduated from the
University of Arizona in
Tucson in 1964, and received a graduate degree from the
Columbia Business School in
New York City in 1966. He served in the Wisconsin
Air National Guard from 1966 to 1972.
Kasten was elected to the
Wisconsin State Senate in 1972 on the day that
Richard M. Nixon was reelected as
U.S. president. In 1974, he was elected to the
House of Representatives as a
Republican. He was reelected in 1976. He ran for
Governor of
Wisconsin in 1978, but lost the Republican nomination to
Lee S. Dreyfus. Kasten ran for the
United States Senate in 1980 and defeated
liberal Democrat and
environmentalist incumbent Senator
Gaylord Nelson. Kasten's victory was propelled in part by the popularity of
Ronald Reagan at the top of the Republican ticket. In the Senate, Kasten was an outspoken
conservative. He was the first Republican to represent Wisconsin in the Senate since
Alexander Wiley left office in 1963.
In 1986, Kasten narrowly defeated Democrat Ed Garvey to win re-election, earning the ironic nickname "Landslide Bob" for the narrowness of each of his two Senate elections. Kasten was defeated by Democrat
Russ Feingold in 1992. Since 1993, he's been President of Kasten & Company, a consulting firm.
In July 2007, it was announced that Kasten was joining the presidential campaign of Republican
Rudy Giuliani as a foreign policy adviser.; in August, it was announced that Kasten would also be chairing Giuliani's Wisconsin campaign, along with former U.S. Representative
Scott Klug and former State Senator Cathy Stepp (R-Yorkville).
Electoral history
Cultural References
Writer
Mike Baron named a recurring character in his Wisconsin-based
comic book Badger after Kasten, then Wisconsin's
junior senator. The character, a
peg-legged,
vampire-hunting
pig named "Senator Bob Kasten", made several appearances in the book.
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