Daniel Schaefer

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Daniel Schaefer
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Colorado's 6th district
In office
March 29, 1983 – January 3, 1999
Preceded byVacant
Jack Swigert (elect)
Succeeded byTom Tancredo
Member of the Colorado Senate
In office
January 9, 1979 – March 31, 1983
Preceded byRobert W. Smedley[1]
Succeeded byKathy S. Arnold
Constituency13th district (1979–1983)
22nd district (1983)
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives
from the 28th district
In office
January 1977 – January 1979
Preceded byLaura Miller[2]
Succeeded byKathy S. Arnold
Personal details
BornJanuary 25, 1936
Guttenberg, Iowa, U.S.
DiedApril 16, 2006(2006-04-16) (aged 70)
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, U.S.
PartyRepublican
EducationNiagara University (BA)
Military service
AllegianceFile:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Branch/serviceFile:Flag of the United States Marine Corps.svg United States Marine Corps
Years of service1955–1957
RankFile:USMC-E5.svg Sergeant

Daniel Schaefer (January 25, 1936 – April 16, 2006) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 6th congressional district from 1983 to 1999.

Early life and education

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Born in Guttenberg, Iowa, he attended public schools. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Niagara University. He also attended Potsdam University from 1961 to 1964.[3]

Career

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Schaefer served in the United States Marine Corps from 1955 to 1957 and attained the rank of sergeant. He then worked as a public relations consultant.

In 1976, he was elected to a two-year term in the Colorado General Assembly. Two years later, he was elected to the Colorado State Senate, where he served from 1979 to 1983. He was a delegate to Colorado State Republican conventions between 1972 and 1982.

Schaefer was elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth United States Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative-elect Jack Swigert, a former astronaut who died of cancer before he could take his seat in Congress.[4] Schaefer polled 49,816 votes (63 percent) in the special election to 27,779 ballots (35 percent) for the Democrat Steve Hogan. No Democrat challenged Schaefer in 1984. In successive elections from 1986 to 1996, he polled more than 60 percent of the vote against each of his Democratic opponents. In his last race in 1996, he received 146,018 votes (62 percent) to 88,600 ballots (38 percent) for the Democrat Joan Fitz-Gerald.[5]

Schaefer did not run for re-election to the 106th United States Congress in 1998. He was succeeded by Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Death

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Schaefer died of cancer at the age of 70.[6]

References

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