Alan K. Simpson
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Alan K. Simpson Net Worth

Alan K. Simpson is a Former United States Senator who was born into a family with political heritage. He served as a senator for two terms and was also a member of the Infantry wing of the armed forces. Before becoming a senator, he held various government posts and was successful in all of them. After retiring from politics, he wrote a book and was involved in philanthropic activities. He is an advocate of equality and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University. He also provides funds to various institutions for their improvement.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Former United States Senator
Birth Day September 02, 1931
Birth Place Denver, United States
Age 91 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Libra
Preceded by Clifford Hansen
Succeeded by Mike Enzi
Leader Bob Dole
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Ann Schroll
Children 3, including Colin
Relatives Milward Simpson (Father) Pete Simpson (Brother)
Education University of Wyoming (BA, LLB)
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service 1954–1956
Rank Second Lieutenant
Unit 5th Infantry 2nd Armored Division

💰 Net worth

Alan K. Simpson, a renowned figure in American politics, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M in 2024. Simpson gained recognition and respect during his tenure as a United States Senator, serving the state of Wyoming. Throughout his career, he demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and a strong commitment to public service. Simpson's net worth reflects his dedication to his career and symbolizes the rewards he has gained through years of distinguished service to his country.

Famous Quotes:

In Simpson’s words to this Court, “I was a monster.”

In that brief, in support of the claimant in the Supreme Court case, Simpson admitted that, as a juvenile, he had been on federal probation for shooting mailboxes and punching a cop and that he "was a monster".

One day in Cody, Wyoming, when Simpson was in high school, he and some friends “went out to do damage.” They went to an abandoned war relocation structure and decided to “torch” it. They committed arson on federal property, a crime now punishable by up to twenty years in prison if no one is hurt, and punishable by up to life in prison if the arson causes a person’s death. Luckily for Simpson, no one was injured in the blaze.

Simpson not only played with fire, but also with guns. He played a game with his friends in which they shot at rocks close to one another, at times using bullets they stole from the local hardware store. The goal of the game was to come as close as possible to striking someone without actually doing so. Again, Simpson was lucky: no one was killed or seriously injured, or caught by their parents.

Simpson and his friends went shooting throughout their community. They fired their rifles at mailboxes, blowing holes in several and killing a cow. They fired their weapons at a road grader. “We just raised hell,” Simpson says. Federal authorities charged Simpson with destroying government property and Simpson pleaded guilty. He received two years of probation and was required to make restitution from his own funds – funds that he was supposed to obtain by holding down a job.

As he [Simpson] has described it, “The older you get, the more you realize . . . your own attitude is stupefying, and arrogant, and cocky, and a miserable way to live.”

Biography/Timeline

1928

Simpson has been a strong critic of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. FEC, calling for the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in that case. In an interview with Wyoming Public Radio, Simpson said: "I think most Americans would like to see reasonable limits on campaign spending."

1949

Alan Simpson graduated from Cody High School in Cody, Wyoming, in 1949, and attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1950 for a postgraduate year. He graduated in 1954 from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1958 with a Juris Doctor. Like his brother, he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at the University of Wyoming.

1954

In 1954 he married the former Susan Ann Schroll, who was a fellow UW student from Greybull, Wyoming. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1955 to 1956, with the 10th Infantry Regiment, Fifth Infantry Division, and with the 12th Armored Infantry Battalion, Second Armored Division.

1958

Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965-77) and won election to the United States Senate (1978). His father, Milward Simpson, had served in the same seat (1962-67). Simpson served as the Senate Republican Whip (1985-95). After serving three terms in the Senate, Simpson declined to seek re-election in 1996.

1965

Simpson served from 1965 to 1977 in the Wyoming House of Representatives from Park County, but he had already left the chamber four years before his brother entered it for a four-year stint.

1978

Simpson was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 7, 1978, but was appointed to the post early on January 1, 1979, following the resignation of Clifford P. Hansen. From 1985 to 1995, Simpson was the Republican whip, Assistant Republican Leader in the Senate, having served with then Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He was chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 1997 when Republicans regained control of the Senate. He also chaired the Immigration and Refugee Subcommittee of Judiciary; the Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee; the Social Security Subcommittee and the Committee on Aging. He was a moderate conservative. He supported abortion right and voted against ban of late term abortion which did not include the exception of physical health(includes only life threatening exception)in 1995 and 1996. However he opposed federal funding for abortions and supported Hyde-Amendment. He was also the co-sponsor of immigration bill regulating more immigration.

1981

Simpson has an older brother, Peter K. Simpson of Cody, a Historian and a former administrator at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, who served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984, having represented Sheridan County, while he was then an administrator at Sheridan College. Pete Simpson was the 1986 Republican gubernatorial nominee, having sought the office while his younger brother was serving in the U.S. Senate.

1988

Simpson teaches periodically at his alma mater, the University of Wyoming at Laramie, with his brother Pete. He has completed serving as chairman of the UW capital "Campaign for Distinction," which raised $204 million. That success was celebrated by the gala event, "An Extraordinary Evening", featuring former President George H.W. Bush (who had reportedly considered Simpson for the vice presidency in 1988) and Vice President Dick Cheney, another UW alumnus, and his wife Lynne V. Cheney.

1993

Simpson also played himself in a cameo appearance for the 1993 film Dave.

1994

The June 7, 1994, edition of the now-defunct supermarket tabloid Weekly World News reported that 12 U.S. senators were aliens from other planets, including Simpson. The Associated Press ran a follow-up piece which confirmed the tongue-in-cheek participation of Senate offices in the story. Then-Senator Simpson's spokesman Charles Pelkey, when asked about Simpson's galactic origins, told the AP: "We've got only one thing to say: Klaatu barada nikto". This was a quotation from a classic science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), in which an alien arrives by flying saucer in Washington, D.C.

1995

In 1995, he lost the whip's job to Trent Lott of Mississippi, and he did not seek reelection to the Senate in 1996. From 1997 to 2000, Simpson taught at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he served for two years as the Director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School.

2001

In 2001, Simpson became Honorary Chairman of the Republican Unity Coalition (RUC), a gay/straight alliance within the Republican Party. In that capacity, Simpson personally recruited former President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., to serve on the RUC advisory board.

2002

In 2002, Simpson was involved in the Republican gubernatorial primary on behalf of former Democrat Eli Bebout of Riverton. Simpson criticized Bebout's principal challengers Raymond Breedlove Hunkins of Wheatland, and Bill Sniffen of Lander in Fremont County. Bebout defeated the two but then lost the general election to the Democratic nominee Dave Freudenthal, a former United States Attorney appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

2006

In 2006, Simpson was one of ten-member (five Democratic and five Republican) contributors to the Iraq Study Group Report.

2008

Simpson then returned to his home of Cody and practices law there with his two Lawyer sons (William and Colin) in the firm of Simpson, Kepler and Edwards. The three are also partners in the firm of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh and Jardine of Englewood, Colorado. Colin M. Simpson, the third generation of his family in Wyoming politics, was a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives who served as Speaker of the House for the 59th session of the Legislature, 2008 to March 2010. He was a candidate for governor, having finished fourth in the primary in 2010.

2010

Simpson was appointed in 2010 to co-chair President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with co-chair Erskine Bowles.

2011

Simpson is on the Board of Directors at the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD). The institute was created at the University of Arizona after the tragic shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, that killed 6 people and wounded 13 others.

2012

In December 2012, Simpson filmed a Gangnam Style video for a campaign, with a man in a tin can costume. The video, aimed at young people, is called "The Can Kicks Back," a reference to the tendencies of members of Congress to forever "kick the can down the road" in order to avoid making difficult decisions about lowering the nation's ballooning debt. In the video, Simpson admonishes younger Americans to make better use of their social media than "instagramming your breakfast and tweeting your first-world problems." He advises younger people to use their considerable social media skills and resources to rally their friends to join The Can Kicks Back. If younger Americans do not take heed, Simpson says, "These old coots will clean out the Treasury before you get there."

2016

In 2016, he joined the Advisory Board of American Promise, a national, cross-partisan, organization that advocates for the 28th Amendment.

2017

On Dec. 4, 2017, The Daily Beast published an article about sexual harassment allegations during the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings. Despite the current nationwide reckoning with the Problem of sexual harassment, Simpson repeated the skepticism about Hill's testimony that he exhibited during the original case. He is quoted as saying, "whatever happened to Professor [Anita] Hill, I don’t believe was sexual harassment...I had a wife and mother, and a daughter, who had been through far worse.”

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