• Born May 7, 1932 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

• One of five children, and only son, of Italian immigrants

• Worked in father's wholesale grocery business




• Graduated 1950 from St. Mary's High School, Albuquerque

• Earned education degree, University of New Mexico, 1954

• Pitched for Albuquerque Dukes -- a farm club for the old Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954

• Left baseball to become math teacher at Garfield Junior High in Albuquerque, 1955

• Earned law degree, University of Denver, 1958

• Returned to Albuquerque, entered private practice, 1958

• Married the former Nancy Burk, 1958

• Domenici's have eight children - two sons and six daughters

Political Experience

• Domenici elected to Albuquerque City Commission, 1966

• Elected Commission Chairman (equivalent then to Mayor), 1967

• First Republican in 38 years in New Mexico to be elected to U.S. Senate, 1972

• With re-election in 1996, Domenici became the first New Mexican elected to serve five full six-year terms in the Senate.