COHEN, William Sebastian, a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, August 28, 1940; attended the public schools; graduated, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1962; graduated, Boston University Law School 1965; admitted to the Maine bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Bangor; instructor, University of Maine 1968-1972; assistant county attorney, Penobscot County 1968-1970; member, Bangor City Council 1969-1972; member, Bangor School Board 1970-1971; mayor, city of Bangor 1971-1972; author; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to the Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives, but was elected in 1978 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1984 and again in 1990 and served from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1997; not a candidate for reelection in 1996; chairman, Select Committee on Indian Affairs (Ninety-seventh Congress); Special Committee on Aging (One Hundred Fourth Congress); Secretary of Defense in the Cabinet of President William Jefferson Clinton, 1997-2001; Chairman and CEO, The Cohen Group 2001-.
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[ Top ]Cohen, William S. A Baker's Nickel: Poetry. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1986.
___. "Congressional Oversight of Covert Actions: The Public's Stake in the Forty-Eight Hour Rule." Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 12 (Spring 1989): 285-301.
___. Dragon Fire. New York: Forge, 2006.
___. One-Eyed Kings: A Novel. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1991.
___. Roll Call: One Year in the United States Senate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
___. Of Sons and Seasons. 1978. Reprint. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Press, 1987.
Cohen, William S., and Thomas B. Allen. Murder in the Senate. New York: Nan A. Talese, 1993.
Cohen, William S., and Gary Hart. The Double Man. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1985.
Cohen, William S., and Janet Langhart Cohen. Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
Cohen, William, and Kenneth Lasson. Getting the Most out of Washington. New York: Facts on File, 1982.
Cohen, William S., and George J. Mitchell. Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings. New York: Viking, 1988.
Fenno, Richard, Jr. Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representative. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
