Early Political Life

While still a student at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, KS…

Dole ran his first congressional campaign in 1960. Facing tough…

The Dole family moved to Washington, D.C. and Congressman Dole…

Representative Dole also got the opportunity to meet his political hero…

With a small staff, Representative Dole did much of the work…

In his eight years as a Representative, Dole never forgot…

Congressman Bob Dole is pictured with Congressman H. Carl Anderson…

Elected by voters from the agriculturally-rich state of Kansas, food was…

Congressman Bob Dole and President Lyndon B. Johnson at a meeting…

Bob Dole with President John F. Kennedy…

In 1968, Dole ran for the U.S. Senate Republican nomination…

Dole won 60 percent of the vote to beat William I. Robinson and win…