Richard J. Phelps is an American

United States

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 politician from Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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Phelps received his bachelors and law degrees from University of Wisconsin–Madison. Phelps served as Dane County, Wisconsin

Dane County, Wisconsin

As of the census of 2000, there were 426,526 people, 173,484 households, and 100,794 families residing in the county. The population density was 355 people per square mile . There were 180,398 housing units at an average density of 150 per square mile...

 County Executive for nine years. He is a senior vice president of M&I Bank. His wife was Hannah Rosenthal

Hannah Rosenthal

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, an United States diplomat. Rick Phelps lost a race for the Democratic Party nomination for the Second Congressional District in 1998, finishing 2nd in a 4-way primary to Tammy Baldwin, who went on to win the House seat being vacated by retiring Republican Representative Scott Klug.