Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. Net Worth is $1.7 Million
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1948 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the first two years of the Clinton administration.
[to Dan Quayle, after Quayle had compared his amount of congressional experience to John F. Kennedy's] Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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Uncle of Congressman Ken Bentsen.
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As a WWII bomber pilot in Europe, he flew fifty missions and was shot down twice, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Lawyer, businessman, and Democratic politician, in 1948 he was elected as the youngest member of the 80th Congress. He quit Congress in 1954, moved to Houston, and established Lincoln Consolidated, a holding company that owned Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance Co. Bentsen went on to build a vast corporate empire including directorships in Lockheed Aircraft, Continental Oil, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline, Trunkline Gas, and the Bank of the Southwest in Houston, becoming like his father a multimillionaire. In 1970 he returned to politics and defeated George Bush for a seat in the U.S. Senate, which he held until 1992. Bentsen unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976 and served as Michael Dukakis' running mate in the 1988 presidential campaign. As a Senator, he voted for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Equal Rights Amendment and supported health insurance, federal funding for medical education, scientific research, preventive health care, bilingual education (he was fluent in Spanish), and public works jobs. Chair of the Senate Finance Committee from 1987 to 1992, he also served as a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Joint Economic Committee. President Bill Clinton appointed him as Secretary of the Treasury on January 20, 1993, which Bentsen served until his resignation December 22, 1994, choosing to return home to Texas.
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Morning
2004
TV Series
Himself
The American President
2000
TV Series documentary
William H. Harrison
Meet the Press
1994
TV Series
Himself
A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre
1993
TV Movie
Himself
1988 Vice Presidential Debate
1988
TV Movie
Himself
The Irv Kupcinet Show
1975
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Race for the White House
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Hooked: Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way - LSD, Ecstasy, and the Raves
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Atomic Cafe
1982
Documentary
Himself (as Rep. Lloyd Bentsen)
Known for movies
1988 Vice Presidential Debate (1988) as Himself
A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre (1993) as Himself
The American President (2000) as William H. Harrison
$1.7 Million
