Meyer remained a close adviser to his son-in-law until his death in 1959, at which time Graham assumed the titles of President and Chairman of the Board of the Post company. Phil Gramm attempted to invest $15,000 in “Truck Stop Women.” His money ultimately helped produce a film portraying Richard Nixon wandering nude around the White House. Gramm was a senator from Texas and was a Republican. That didn't distinguish him a lot as Senator, or stop him from being McCain's economic adviser. He has said in the past that government regulation of the economy is "akin to communism." to determine if federal programs were worthwhile. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995 through 2000, Gramm was Washington's most prominent and outspoken champion of financial deregulation.
Read biography Party History in Congress: Republican (1985-2002) Democratic (1979-1985) Senate: Texas 99th-107th (1985-2002) House: Texas, District 6 96th-98th (1979-1985) More on This Member. Gramm lives in Helotes, outside San Antonio, Texas. They are the parents of two sons: Marshall Gramm, a professor of economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and Jeff Gramm, who is a money manager, author, and previously a musician in the indie pop band Aden. William Philip Gramm is an American economist and politician, who has served as a Democratic Congressman, a Republican Congressman and a Republican Senator from Texas.
He is married to Wendy Lee Gramm, a native of Hawaii, who is associated with George Mason University's Mercatus Center in Virginia.
Indeed, his gaffe represents little more than a scrap in the massive heap of wreckage he has left in his wake. When Gramm switched from Democrat to Republ… In 1976, Gramm unsuccessfully challenged Texas Democratic Senator Gramm's voting record was very conservative, even by Texas Democratic standards of the time. Senate seat being vacated by Phil Gramm.
In 1954, Graham was the leading force behind the founding of the In 1961, Kennedy named Graham to serve as an incorporator for the Communications Satellite Corporation, known as Graham then left his wife for Robin Webb, announced to his friends that he planned to On August 3, 1963, after Graham had made repeated requests of his doctors to be allowed a short stay away from the hospital, and "quite noticeably much better", according to his wife, he was permitted to go to their farmhouse in Virginia, Glen Welby, for the weekend. Their first baby died at birth. Phil Graham, who had bipolar disorder, died by suicide in 1963, ... Graham, made a career in farming and real estate, and was elected to the State Senate. One half brother, Bob Graham, is a former governor of the state of Florida … In 1999, after a bonfire stack collapse at Texas A&M University He employed his "Dickey Flatt Test" ("Is it worth taking it out of Dickey's pocket?") He was previously the representative for Texas’s 6 th congressional district as most recently a Republican (1983-1984) and previously a Democrat (1979-1982) from 1979 to 1984. Senator Phil Gramm (1942 - ) In Congress 1979 - 2002. Richard "Dickey" Flatt owns a family run printing business started by his father and mother in In spite of his self-proclaimed opposition to Federal spending, Gramm voted to have the Federal Government build the Gramm ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Party nomination in the After abandoning his presidential bid, Gramm refocused on his bid for a third Senate term. See This Member's Remarks in the Congressional … He defeated In 2002, Gramm left his Senate seat (effective November 30) a few weeks before the expiration of his term in hopes that his successor, fellow Republican Some economists state that the 1999 legislation spearheaded by Gramm and signed into law by President Clinton—the Gramm responded in March 2008 to criticism of the act by stating that he saw "no evidence whatsoever" that the sub-prime mortgage crisis was caused in any way "by allowing banks and securities companies and insurance companies to compete against each other".Gramm's support was later critical in the passage of the This article is about the American politician. Member Hide Overview . His economic policies can best be described as a libertarian, due to his claim to have extreme hatred of all government regulations. He became a member of the deputy minority whip team the following year and rose in the Republican Party Senate leadership,… It had been used repeatedly in the This article is about the American publisher. For other persons of the same name, see 2007 mortgage and 2008 financial and economic crises2007 mortgage and 2008 financial and economic crisesGramm resigned his seat in protest of being thrown off the House Budget Committee and successfully ran in a special election caused by his own resignation as a Republican 39 days later. He served from 1985 to 2002. Gramm was an accident waiting to happen. His mother, the former Florence Morris, had been a schoolteacher in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Four children followed: In 1948, Meyer transferred his actual control of the Post Company stock (the company was privately owned) to his daughter and her husband.