Thomas Eagleton was one of the first U.S. Senators to vocally oppose the Vietnam war, and the primary author of the War Powers Act, which limited the authority of the president to wage war without congressional approval. He was briefly the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate with George McGovern in 1972, until revelations that he had once undergone shock therapy forced his removal from the ticket.
[1] St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond Heights, Missouri. Father: Mark D. Eagleton (lawyer)
Mother: Zitta Swanson Eagleton
Brother: Mark D. Eagleton, Jr. (doctor, older, d. 1985)
Brother: Kevin Eagleton (younger)
Wife: Barbara Ann Smith (m. 1956, one son, one daughter)
Son: Terence (b. 1959)
Daughter: Christin (b. 1960)
High School: Saint Louis Country Day School (1946)
University: Amherst College (1951)
University: Oxford University
Law School: Harvard Law School (1953)
Professor: Public Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis (1987-99)
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1993-98)
Chicago Board of Trade
US Senator, Missouri (3-Jan-1969 to 3-Jan-1987)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1965-69)
Attorney General of Missouri (1961-65)
Missouri State Official Circuit Attorney, St. Louis (1956)
Anheuser-Busch Assistant General Counsel (1953)
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs Senior Advisory Committee
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
Gephardt for President
John Kerry for President
St. Louis Walk of Fame
Nervous Breakdown 1960
Nervous Breakdown 1964
Nervous Breakdown 1966
Shock Treatment
Risk Factors: Bipolar Disorder
Author of books:
War and Presidential Power: A Chronicle of Congressional Surrender (1974, nonfiction)
Our Constitution and What It Means (1987, textbook, with William Kottmeyer)
Issues in Business and Government (1991, nonfiction)
AKA Thomas Francis Eagleton