Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who was a four-term U.S. Senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served as the 69th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton.. Born in Mission, Texas, Bentsen graduated from the …

Lloyd Bentsen was an American Democratic politician who was a longtime U.S. senator (1971–93) before serving as secretary of the treasury (1993–94) in the presidential administration of Bill Clinton. Bentsen was also the unsuccessful …

Lloyd Bentsen Dan Quayle "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a remark made during the 1988 United States vice presidential debate by Democratic nominee Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Republican nominee Senator Dan Quayle in response to Quayle's comparison of his experience in Congress to that of John F. Kennedy, the Democratic 35th president of the United States, …

Lloyd Bentsen (February 11, 1921 — May 23, 2006) was a Senator from Texas from 1971 to 1993 and was the United States Secretary of the Treasury under the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1994. He was a congressman from Texas from 1948 to 1955. He was also chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance from 1987 to 1993.

2006年5月30日 · The story of Lloyd Bentsen Jr.’s life was the classic success story — one of a poor family’s advancement through risk-taking, hard work and education. Bentsen’s roots extend to Scandinavia by way of the upper Midwest. His grandfather, Peter Bentsen, was an immigrant from Denmark who drove for 17 days to relocate to Texas in 1918.

2006年5月23日 · Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton's first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85.

2006年5月24日 · Lloyd Bentsen, the former four-term U.S. senator from Texas who was the 1988 Democratic vice presidential nominee and served as President Clinton's first secretary of the Treasury, died Tuesday.

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Former Senator for Texas Bentsen was a senator from Texas and was a Democrat. He served from 1971 to 1993. He was previously the representative for Texas’s 15 th congressional district ...

2006年5月22日 · "Lloyd Bentsen was a man of great honor and distinction." National ambitions led Bentsen to seek the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, a race he quickly abandoned after gaining little support.

2010年12月1日 · Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr., businessman, United States representative and senator, and secretary of the treasury, was born on February 11, 1921, in Mission, Texas. He was the son of Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Sr. (informally known as Big Lloyd), and Edna Ruth Colbath (informally known as Dolly). Bentsen grew up on the Arrowhead Ranch, one of the ...