Pete Domenici
Pietro Vichi Pete Domenici is an American Republican politician, who served six terms as a United States Senator from New Mexico, from 1973 to 2009, the longest tenure in the states history. During Domenicis tenure in the Senate, he advocated waterway usage fees, nuclear power, and related causes.
Domenici was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, to ItalianAmerican parents Alda , an undocumented immigrant, and Cherubino Domenici, who were born in Sorbara, Province of Modena, Italy. Growing up, he worked in his fathers grocery business after school. He graduated in 1950 from St. Marys High School in Albuquerque. After earning a degree in education at the University of New Mexico in 1954, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, he pitched for one season for the Albuquerque Dukes, a farm club for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He taught mathematics at Garfield Junior High in Albuquerque. He earned his law degree at the University of Denver law school in 1958 and returned to practice law in Albuquerque.
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