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|birth_date=25 July 1924

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|birth_place=Boise, Idaho~~, U.S.~~

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== Biography ==

~~Ritchie Boy~~ Frank Church ~~left~~ Stanford University in ~~1943~~ to enlist in the US Army~~. He~~ served as a military intelligence officer in ~~Myanmar~~, ~~China~~, and ~~India~~. Frank Church was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from the State of Idaho from 1956 to 1981. He served as Chair of the House Select Committee on Government Intelligence Activities. He played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in the reform of U.S. ~~intelligence activities~~.

Frank Forrester Church III was born on July 25, 1924, in Boise, Idaho. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, he enrolled at Stanford University in 1942 but left to enlist in the Army, where he served as a military intelligence officer in the China Burma India Theater of World War II.

Joseph's School as a youngster, where he went by the nickname "Frosty." In his youth, Church admired William Borah, who represented Idaho in the United States Senate from 1907 until his death in 1940. As a junior in 1941, he won the American Legion National Oratorical Contest, which resulted in him receiving sufficient funds to provide for his four-year enrollment at Stanford University in California, where he joined the Theta Xi fraternity. He stated that "Because he was a senator, I wanted to become one, too." Church graduated from Boise High School in 1942, where he served as student body president.

In April 1943, Frank attended ASTP, Lafayette College (Spanish). In 1947, Church graduated from Stanford with BA (History), Phi Beta Kappa. This second chance led him to later reflect that "life itself is such a chancy proposition that the only way to live is by taking great chances." In 1950, Church graduated from Stanford Law School and returned to Boise to practice law and teach public speaking at Boise Junior College (now Boise State University).

Following the end of the war, he completed his law degree from Stanford Law School and returned to Boise to practice law. He entered Harvard Law School that fall and after one year, Church transferred to Stanford Law School, when he thought the cold Massachusetts winter was the cause of a pain in his lower back. He faced a number of opponents, including Ricks College professor Claude Burtenshaw, bureaucrat Alvin McCormack, and former senator Glen H.

Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American politician and lawyer. In June 1947 he married Bethine Clark, daughter of Chase Clark, a former Democratic governor of Idaho and the federal judge for the state. Church became an active Democrat in Idaho and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the state legislature in 1952.

Frank Church was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from the State of Idaho from 1956 to 1981. In 1960, Church received national exposure when he gave the keynote speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Church was re-elected continuously to the Senate, defeating his Republican opponents in 1962, 1968, and 1974, until his defeat during the Republican wave of 1980.

Church was reelected in 1962, defeating former state representative Jack Hawley. In 1967, a recall campaign was waged against Church by Ron Rankin, a Republican county commissioner in the northern Idaho county Kootenai who co-founded the Victory in Vietnam Committee to coordinate the recall. James Risen attributes Church's victory to the 1967 recall effort backfiring: "Most Idaho voters were angered by the recall effort, and it generated sympathy for Church throughout the state." In the 1968 Senate election, Church won with over 60 percent of the vote against Republican challenger and U.S.

Church was highly critical of the Vietnam War, despite initially supporting it; he co-authored the Cooper–Church Amendment of 1970 and the Case–Church Amendment of 1973, which sought to curtail the war. He was the co-author of two legislative efforts to curtail the war: the Cooper–Church Amendment of 1970, and the Case–Church Amendment of 1973. Church was a key figure in American foreign policy during the 1970s, and served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1979 to 1981.

He served as Acting G-2 for General James B. He was the longest serving Democratic senator from the state and the only Democrat from the state who served more than two terms in the Senate. Church was a prominent figure in American foreign policy and established a reputation as a member of the party's liberal wing.

As a senator, he was a protégé of then-Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson, and was appointed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Considered a strong progressive and environmental legislator, he played a major role in the creation of a system of protected wilderness areas.

Although he won primaries in Nebraska, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, he withdrew in favor of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. Following the end of his term, he practiced international law in Washington, D.C., specializing in Asian issues. He traced his ancestry from the East Coast of the United States, with his grandfather, Frank Forrester Church I, moving to Idaho during the height of the gold rush that followed the end of the Civil War.

Church III was the younger of two sons of Frank Forrester Church II and Laura Bilderback Church. The family was reportedly very Catholic and conservative, with Church attending St. The pain did not go away and the problem was soon diagnosed as testicular cancer.

After one of his testicles and glands in his lower abdomen were removed, Church was given only a few months to live. However, he rebounded from the illness after another doctor started X-ray treatments. Both boys were named for their grandfathers.

Following his return to Idaho, he became active in Democratic Party politics, and he became the chairman of the Young Democrats of Idaho. Church entered the primary race, which was described as "the most colorful primary in the history of the state". His slogan, "Idaho Will Be Proud of Frank Church", was a major asset to his campaign.

Church also campaigned on an internationalist plank, in favor of a publicly owned Hells Canyon Dam and was conservative on money matters. This was in stark contrast to Welker's campaign, which focused heavily on anti-Communism, a decision that proved to be a weak political foundation. This was despite a number of factors that might have inhibited Church's campaign, including the Republican's fundraising advantage and Eisenhower's large victory in the presidential election.

Johnson was so grateful he made the young Idahoan a veritable protégé, rewarding him with plum assignments, such as a seat on the prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position which allowed Church to follow in the footsteps of his idol, William Borah. To date, he is the only Idaho Democrat to be popularly elected for more than one term in the Senate. Following the instinct that led him to ask questions early on (see above), Church was one of the first senators to publicly oppose the Vietnam War in the 1960s, although he had supported the conflict earlier.

Schmitz states that Church based his assertion on the fact that two key propositions of the anti-war movement, "A negotiated peace and the withdrawal of American troops," were now official policy. To Church, the anti-war opposition was the "highest concept of patriotism—which is not the patriotism of conformity—but the patriotism of Senator Carl Schurz, a dissenter from an earlier period, who proclaimed: 'Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right: when wrong, to be put right." He served as a military intelligence officer in Myanmar, China, and India.

He served as Chair of the House Select Committee on Government Intelligence Activities. He played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in the reform of U.S.

Church was hospitalized for a pancreatic tumor on January 12, 1984, and he died less than three months later at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, on April 7, 1984. Frank and Bethine Church had two sons, Frank Forrester Church IV, who died in 2009, and Chase Clark Church, who lives in Boise. His older brother Richard Church became a career officer in the United States Marine Corps, and retired as a colonel.

When Borah died, Church walked by the open coffin in the rotunda of the State Capitol.

== Research notes ==

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* Idaho Senator; opposed Vietnam War

* Church Committee (Intelligence)

* Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ij8PP9weF976Lb5_Ic4bFimcuAZzXRn3cHfNCk5nTdM source]).

~~== Gallery ==~~

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== Timeline ==

* Born 25 July 1924 in Boise, ID.

* 4 January 1944 — Entered Camp Ritchie as Pfc. Languages: None.

* 3 March 1944 — Graduated with Class 15 (Photointerpreter); Chief Clerk.

* 10 March 1944 — Promoted to Cpl.

* 25 July 1944 — Graduated as 2nd Lt. from OCS at Fort Benning (ASN 01326316).

* 10 December 1944 — Graduated with Class 24 JapOB.

* August 1944 — Returned to Camp Ritchie.

* Awarded Bronze Star.

* Enlisted as Pvt (ASN 19132478).

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== Sources ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church Wikipedia: Frank Church]

* Camp Ritchie ~~class roster~~ (~~classes~~ 1–31), ~~merged~~ research ~~file~~

* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data

* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records

* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)

* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)

* Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2023-06-01 (1 post)

* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Frank Forrester III Church for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 1 source documents reviewed)

* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Church, Frank Forrester III for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 1 source files: FRANK F. CHURCH.doc)

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+|religion=Catholic
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 |birth_date=25 July 1924
 |death_date=7 April 1984
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+|birth_place=Boise, Idaho
-|death_place=Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
+|death_place=Bethesda, Maryland
 |alias=Frank Forrester Church III
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-|class_branch=United States Army
 |years_of_service=1942–1946
 |battles=World War II<br />China Burma India Theater
 |occupation=United States Senator (Idaho); Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chair of the Senate Aging Committee
 |known_for=United States Senator (Idaho)
+|awards=Bronze Star Medal
+|awards_grid=Bronze Star Medal
+|awards_ribbons=Ribbon_Bronze_Star_Medal_ribbon.png
+|awards_ribbon_rows=Ribbon_Bronze_Star_Medal_ribbon.png
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 == Biography ==
-Ritchie Boy Frank Church left Stanford University in 1943 to enlist in the US Army. He served as a military intelligence officer in Myanmar, China, and India. Frank Church was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from the State of Idaho from 1956 to 1981. He served as Chair of the House Select Committee on Government Intelligence Activities. He played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in the reform of U.S. intelligence activities.
+Frank Forrester Church III was born on July 25, 1924, in Boise, Idaho. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, he enrolled at Stanford University in 1942 but left to enlist in the Army, where he served as a military intelligence officer in the China Burma India Theater of World War II.
+Joseph's School as a youngster, where he went by the nickname "Frosty." In his youth, Church admired William Borah, who represented Idaho in the United States Senate from 1907 until his death in 1940. As a junior in 1941, he won the American Legion National Oratorical Contest, which resulted in him receiving sufficient funds to provide for his four-year enrollment at Stanford University in California, where he joined the Theta Xi fraternity. He stated that "Because he was a senator, I wanted to become one, too." Church graduated from Boise High School in 1942, where he served as student body president.
+In April 1943, Frank attended ASTP, Lafayette College (Spanish). In 1947, Church graduated from Stanford with BA (History), Phi Beta Kappa. This second chance led him to later reflect that "life itself is such a chancy proposition that the only way to live is by taking great chances." In 1950, Church graduated from Stanford Law School and returned to Boise to practice law and teach public speaking at Boise Junior College (now Boise State University).
+Following the end of the war, he completed his law degree from Stanford Law School and returned to Boise to practice law. He entered Harvard Law School that fall and after one year, Church transferred to Stanford Law School, when he thought the cold Massachusetts winter was the cause of a pain in his lower back. He faced a number of opponents, including Ricks College professor Claude Burtenshaw, bureaucrat Alvin McCormack, and former senator Glen H.
+Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American politician and lawyer. In June 1947 he married Bethine Clark, daughter of Chase Clark, a former Democratic governor of Idaho and the federal judge for the state. Church became an active Democrat in Idaho and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the state legislature in 1952.
+Frank Church was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from the State of Idaho from 1956 to 1981. In 1960, Church received national exposure when he gave the keynote speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Church was re-elected continuously to the Senate, defeating his Republican opponents in 1962, 1968, and 1974, until his defeat during the Republican wave of 1980.
+Church was reelected in 1962, defeating former state representative Jack Hawley. In 1967, a recall campaign was waged against Church by Ron Rankin, a Republican county commissioner in the northern Idaho county Kootenai who co-founded the Victory in Vietnam Committee to coordinate the recall. James Risen attributes Church's victory to the 1967 recall effort backfiring: "Most Idaho voters were angered by the recall effort, and it generated sympathy for Church throughout the state." In the 1968 Senate election, Church won with over 60 percent of the vote against Republican challenger and U.S.
+Church was highly critical of the Vietnam War, despite initially supporting it; he co-authored the Cooper–Church Amendment of 1970 and the Case–Church Amendment of 1973, which sought to curtail the war. He was the co-author of two legislative efforts to curtail the war: the Cooper–Church Amendment of 1970, and the Case–Church Amendment of 1973. Church was a key figure in American foreign policy during the 1970s, and served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1979 to 1981.
+He served as Acting G-2 for General James B. He was the longest serving Democratic senator from the state and the only Democrat from the state who served more than two terms in the Senate. Church was a prominent figure in American foreign policy and established a reputation as a member of the party's liberal wing.
+As a senator, he was a protégé of then-Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson, and was appointed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Considered a strong progressive and environmental legislator, he played a major role in the creation of a system of protected wilderness areas.
+Although he won primaries in Nebraska, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, he withdrew in favor of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. Following the end of his term, he practiced international law in Washington, D.C., specializing in Asian issues. He traced his ancestry from the East Coast of the United States, with his grandfather, Frank Forrester Church I, moving to Idaho during the height of the gold rush that followed the end of the Civil War.
+Church III was the younger of two sons of Frank Forrester Church II and Laura Bilderback Church. The family was reportedly very Catholic and conservative, with Church attending St. The pain did not go away and the problem was soon diagnosed as testicular cancer.
+After one of his testicles and glands in his lower abdomen were removed, Church was given only a few months to live. However, he rebounded from the illness after another doctor started X-ray treatments. Both boys were named for their grandfathers.
+Following his return to Idaho, he became active in Democratic Party politics, and he became the chairman of the Young Democrats of Idaho. Church entered the primary race, which was described as "the most colorful primary in the history of the state". His slogan, "Idaho Will Be Proud of Frank Church", was a major asset to his campaign.
+Church also campaigned on an internationalist plank, in favor of a publicly owned Hells Canyon Dam and was conservative on money matters. This was in stark contrast to Welker's campaign, which focused heavily on anti-Communism, a decision that proved to be a weak political foundation. This was despite a number of factors that might have inhibited Church's campaign, including the Republican's fundraising advantage and Eisenhower's large victory in the presidential election.
+Johnson was so grateful he made the young Idahoan a veritable protégé, rewarding him with plum assignments, such as a seat on the prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position which allowed Church to follow in the footsteps of his idol, William Borah. To date, he is the only Idaho Democrat to be popularly elected for more than one term in the Senate. Following the instinct that led him to ask questions early on (see above), Church was one of the first senators to publicly oppose the Vietnam War in the 1960s, although he had supported the conflict earlier.
+Schmitz states that Church based his assertion on the fact that two key propositions of the anti-war movement, "A negotiated peace and the withdrawal of American troops," were now official policy. To Church, the anti-war opposition was the "highest concept of patriotism—which is not the patriotism of conformity—but the patriotism of Senator Carl Schurz, a dissenter from an earlier period, who proclaimed: 'Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right: when wrong, to be put right." He served as a military intelligence officer in Myanmar, China, and India.
+He served as Chair of the House Select Committee on Government Intelligence Activities. He played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in the reform of U.S.
+Church was hospitalized for a pancreatic tumor on January 12, 1984, and he died less than three months later at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, on April 7, 1984. Frank and Bethine Church had two sons, Frank Forrester Church IV, who died in 2009, and Chase Clark Church, who lives in Boise. His older brother Richard Church became a career officer in the United States Marine Corps, and retired as a colonel.
+When Borah died, Church walked by the open coffin in the rotunda of the State Capitol.
 == Research notes ==
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 * Idaho Senator; opposed Vietnam War
 * Church Committee (Intelligence)
-* Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ij8PP9weF976Lb5_Ic4bFimcuAZzXRn3cHfNCk5nTdM source]).
-== Gallery ==
-<div class="soldier-gallery">
-<gallery mode="packed" heights="140px">
-626517642845833.jpg
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-</div>
 == Technical record ==
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+== Timeline ==
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+<div class="soldier-timeline-body">
+* Born 25 July 1924 in Boise, ID.
+* 4 January 1944 — Entered Camp Ritchie as Pfc. Languages: None.
+* 3 March 1944 — Graduated with Class 15 (Photointerpreter); Chief Clerk.
+* 10 March 1944 — Promoted to Cpl.
+* 25 July 1944 — Graduated as 2nd Lt. from OCS at Fort Benning (ASN 01326316).
+* 10 December 1944 — Graduated with Class 24 JapOB.
+* August 1944 — Returned to Camp Ritchie.
+* Awarded Bronze Star.
+* Enlisted as Pvt (ASN 19132478).
+</div>
+</div><div style="clear: both;"></div>
 == Sources ==
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church Wikipedia: Frank Church]
-* Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
+* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
+* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
 * NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
 * 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
 * Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2023-06-01 (1 post)
+* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Frank Forrester III Church for Camp Ritchie'' (private research document; 1 source documents reviewed)
+* Dan Gross, ''Timeline of Church, Frank Forrester III for Camp Ritchie'' (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 1 source files: FRANK F. CHURCH.doc)