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Mar 29, 1942 Humboldt, South Dakota, United States 82 years old
U.S. politician
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About Larry Pressler
- Larry Lee Pressler (born March 29, 1942) is an American politician from South Dakota.
- He served two terms in the U.S.
- House of Representatives (1975–79) and three terms in the U.S.
- Senate (1979–97), losing re-election to Tim Johnson (1996).
- He was the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the Senate. Since leaving the Senate, Pressler has served as a lawyer, business advisor, and lecturer and has remained active in politics and government.
- Pressler also functions as a journalist and columnist.
- He has written for the Deseret News for which he has written a bi-weekly column called "What's Really Happening In Washington, DC" He has either considered running, or briefly run, for office several times.
- In December 2013, Pressler announced that he would run as an independent in the 2014 mid-term elections for the U.S.
- Senate seat he lost to Johnson, who was retiring.
- Pressler lost the election to Mike Rounds. Pressler is founder and president of The Pressler Group, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), a small business to work on projects in service of veterans.
