Dick Durbin

Person · Open Library

Born

1944-11-21

Works

2

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · East St. Louis, Illinois, USA

Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin is in his fifth Senate term and has served as the Senate Democratic whip since 2005 (the second-highest position in the Democratic leadership in the Senate) and as the Senate majority…

Known for

• Four Hours at the Capitol — Self - Illinois Senator2021
• The Problem with Jon Stewart — Self2021
• Inside Obama's White House — Self2016
• The Circus — Self (archive footage)2016
• Every Three Seconds2014
• The World According to Dick Cheney — Self (archive footage)2013
• Pricele$$ — Self2010
• Hype: The Obama Effect — Self (archive footage)2008
• Fox News Sunday1996
• Face The Nation1954

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Country

US

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,112x

2. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 46,748x

3. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,659x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,515x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,370x

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Key facts

Preceded by

Paul Simon

Leader

Chuck Schumer

Succeeded by

John Thune

via Wikipedia infobox

Key dates

Born

21 November 1944

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Dick

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

East St. Louis

Occupation

professor

Position held

United States senator

Educated at

Walsh School of Foreign Service

Political party

Democratic Party (United States)

Languages spoken