Conrad Burns
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United States Senator from Montana |
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In office January 3, 1989 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | John Melcher |
| Succeeded by | Jon Tester |
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Conrad Ray Burns January 25, 1935 Gallatin, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | April 28, 2016 (aged 81) Billings, Montana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Phyllis Kuhlmann |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri, Columbia |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
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 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Marine Corps
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| Years of service | 1955–1957 |
Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was a United States Senator from Montana and later a lobbyist. He was only the second Republican to represent Montana in the Senate since the passage in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was the longest-serving Republican senator in Montana history.
While in the Senate, Burns sat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and was the chairman of its Subcommittee on the Interior. He was also chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee's Communications subcommittee.
Burns was born on a farm near Gallatin, Missouri, to Russell and Mary Frances (Knight) Burns. He graduated from Gallatin High School in 1952 and then enrolled in the College of Agriculture at the University of Missouri. He was also a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. Two years later Burns left without graduating, and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1955. He served in Japan and Korea as a small-arms instructor.
After his military service in 1957, Burns began working for Trans World Airlines and Ozark Air Lines. In 1962, he traveled the state of Montana as a field representative for Polled Hereford World magazine in Billings, He married Phyllis Jean Kuhlmann in 1967; they have two children, Keely and Garrett.
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