Russ Feingold
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Russell Dana Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
A Democrat, Feingold served as one of his state's U.S. Senators from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 2011, and was the Democratic nominee in the 2016 election for the same U.S. Senate seat he had previously occupied.
From 1983 to 1993, he was a Wisconsin State Senator representing the 27th District.With John McCain, Feingold received the 1999 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
He and McCain cosponsored the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain–Feingold Act), a major piece of campaign finance reform legislation.
He was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act during the first vote on the legislation. Feingold was mentioned as a possible candidate in the 2008 presidential election, but in November 2006 announced he would not run.
In 2010, Feingold narrowly lost his campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate to Republican nominee Ron Johnson.
On June 18, 2013, he was selected by Secretary of State John Kerry to replace R. Barrie Walkley as a special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa.On May 14, 2015, Feingold announced his candidacy for his old Senate seat in 2016.
He was defeated by Johnson in a rematch of their 2010 Senate race.
Personal life
Feingold resides in Middleton, Wisconsin. He is a member of Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where his sister, Dena Feingold, is rabbi.
Feingold was married to Sue Levine from 1977 until 1986. They had two children. He married Mary Speerschneider in 1991; in 2005, the couple announced they would divorce. In 2013, Feingold married Dr. Christine Ferdinand, a fellow at Magdalen College at Oxford University in England.
In 2011, Feingold received a Freedom Medal from the Roosevelt Institute.
Early life, education, and career
Feingold was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, to a Jewish family. His grandparents immigrated from Russia and Galicia. Leon Feingold (1912–1980), an advocate, and his mother, Sylvia Feingold (née Binstock), worked at a title firm from 1918 to 2005. Feingold was one of four children. Feingold's father and his older brother David, a Vietnam War conscient objector, were the major influences on his political formation as a youth. He was also affiliated with the B'nai B'rith Youth Organisation and Aleph Zadik Aleph as a youth.
Feingold served for the presidential campaign of New York City Mayor John Lindsay in 1972. Later, he sponsored Mo Udall and Ted Kennedy's presidential campaigns.
Feingold graduated from Joseph A. Craig High School in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and was inducted into the Iron Shield Society, which is the highest award available to University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students. Feingold graduated with a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence in 1977. On his return to the United States, he attended Harvard Law School, earning his J.D. In 1979, he was honoured with an award.
Feingold served as an advocate for Foley & Lardner and La Follette & Sinykin from 1979 to 1985.
Post-congressional career
Feingold was appointed a visiting professor at Marquette University Law School after his 2010 demise. While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call to the Post-9/11 World," he wrote a book that backed Obama's reelection in 2012. Feingold will serve as a co-chair of Obama's reelection bid in February 2012. In 2012, he was the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford Law School. He was the Stephen Edward Scarff Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lawrence University in 2012-13.
Feingold founded Progressives United, a Political Action Committee, and a related nonprofit group called Progressives United Inc. "Simply and informally supporting candidates who stand up for our democratic ideals" in February 2011. The two companies earned and invested $10 million between 2011 and 2015. The PAC has raised funds for more than 50 political candidates, including former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, who defeated incumbent Scott Brown in 2012. In late 2014, Progressive United Inc. withdrew in late 2014, and the Progressives United PAC suspended fundraising efforts in May 2015 in order to prevent the emergence of a conflict of interest with Feingold's 2016 Senate bid.
United States Special Representative for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Feingold, was named by US Secretary of State John Kerry on June 18, 2013. On February 24, 2015, he resigned from the position.
Feingold became a member of Issue One's ReFormers Caucus in November 2019.
Feingold was elected president of the American Constitution Society in February 2020.