Philip Miller Crane was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th district of Illinois in the northwester
Rep. Phil Crane early in his congressional tenure
Eric Sevareid (center) moderates a League of Women Voters-sponsored presidential forum on March 13, 1980, in Chicago featuring Crane (far left) and fellow Republican candidates George H. W. Bush (second from left), John B. Anderson (far right), and Ronald Reagan (second from right).
Phil Crane with Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Thomas and President George W. Bush at the White House.
Donald Henry Rumsfeld was an American politician, businessman, naval officer, and diplomat who served as the 13th United States secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and
Phil Crane
…reelection in 2000. Crane was first elected to the United States Congress in what was then the 13th District in a 1969 special election, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed to a position in the Nixon administration. Crane was a dark horse candidate in a field of seven aspirants for the Republican nomination…
Rumsfeld's 1954 yearbook portrait from Princeton
Rumsfeld (right, standing) as a Navy lieutenant in 1955
Rumsfeld during his time in Congress