Background
Paul Tsongas was born on February 14, 1941, in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Efthemios George Tsongas, a dry-cleaner, and Katina Tsongas, who died of tuberculosis when Paul was six.
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1981
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1984
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1996
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Paul Tsongas was born on February 14, 1941, in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Efthemios George Tsongas, a dry-cleaner, and Katina Tsongas, who died of tuberculosis when Paul was six.
Tsongas attended public schools in Lowell and graduated from Lowell High School in 1958. He then worked his way through Dartmouth College where he earned a bachelor's degree with a major in history in 1962. He also attended Yale Law School, receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1967.
Tsongas gained an interest in politics after serving in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962 to 1964. After returning to the United States, he rejoined the staff of the Peace Corps and became the training coordinator for the West Indies.
In 1969, Tsongas served the State of Massachusetts as deputy assistant attorney general, a post he held until 1971. He left at that time to go into private practice.
In 1975, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1979, he was elected to the Senate, where he served until 1985 when he announced his retirement from the Senate.
Paul Tsongas came to national attention when he campaigned for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1992, losing out to Bill Clinton. Making a strong case for politically dangerous, painful measures to ensure reduction of the federal budget deficit, he won the New Hampshire primary and thereby nudged the party toward a policy of heightened fiscal responsibility.
In late 1994, Tsongas briefly led an effort to establish a third party, to be led by someone with "national authority", suggesting General Colin Powell for that role.
Tsongas also wrote several books, including The Road From Here: Liberalism and Realities in the 1980s, A Call to Economic Arms, Heading Home, and Journey of Purpose.
As a leader of the neoliberal or “New” Democrats of the post-Watergate era, Tsongas advanced the shift in the Democratic liberal philosophy from the big government of the 1960s to the smaller government with its concomitant balanced budgets that would become the norm in the late 1990s.
On January 27, 1998, the Tsongas Arena in Lowell was dedicated in his honour.
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1996Tsongas was a social liberal and an economic moderate. Relative to business and economic matters, Tsongas focused in particular on the Federal budget deficit, a cause he continued to champion even after his presidential primary campaign ended, by co-founding the Concord Coalition.
Physical Characteristics: In 1983, Tsongas was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. After undergoing a bone marrow transplant to treat the disease in 1986 and receiving a clean bill of health from doctors in 1991, Tsongas's health had improved and his cancer was in remission. In January 1997, he was hospitalized in Boston, where he died.
Tsongas married Nicola Sauvage in 1969. The couple had three daughters: Ashley, Katina, and Molly.