Barber Conable
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| President of the World Bank Group | |
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In office July 1, 1986 – September 1, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Clausen |
| Succeeded by | Lewis Preston |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 30th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985 |
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| Preceded by | David Martin |
| Succeeded by | Fred Eckert |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 35th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | James Hanley |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 37th district |
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In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Harold Ostertag |
| Succeeded by | Thaddeus Dulski |
| Member of the New York Senate from the 53rd district |
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In office January 1, 1963 – December 31, 1964 |
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| Preceded by | Austin Erwin |
| Succeeded by | Kenneth Willard |
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November 2, 1922 Warsaw, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 30, 2003 (aged 81) Sarasota, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Charlotte Williams |
| Education | Cornell University (BA, LLB) |
Barber Benjamin Conable, Jr. (November 2, 1922 – November 30, 2003) was a U.S. Congressman from New York and president of the World Bank.
Conable was born in Warsaw, New York on November 2, 1922. Conable was an Eagle Scout and received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He graduated from Cornell University in 1942, where he was president of the Quill and Dagger society and a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He then enlisted in the Marines and was sent to the Pacific front in World War II, where he learned to speak Japanese and fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima. After the war, he received his law degree from Cornell University Law School in 1948, where he lived at the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, having been admitted to the House as a law student, after an unsuccessful attempt as an undergraduate. He later re-enlisted and fought in the Korean War.
In 1962, Conable was elected as a Republican to the New York State Senate. After only one term, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964 from a Rochester-based district. He was reelected nine more times. He was known on both sides of the aisle for his honesty and integrity, at one point being voted by his colleagues the "most respected" member of Congress; he refused to accept personal contributions larger than $50. As longtime ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee, one of his signal legislative achievements was a provision in the U.S. tax code that made so-called 401(k) and 403(b) defined-contribution retirement plans possible, and contributions to those plans by both employers and employees tax-deferred, under federal tax law.
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