- While fighting in World War II, Bob Dole was injured while in Italy and as a result of those injuries had to spend thirty nine months in a hospital.
- Bob Dole wrote a memoir oh his war days titled One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, which was released in 2005.
- Bob Dole was selected by President George W. Bush to co-chair a commission whose primary objective is to investigate issues in the health care system of the military in 2007.
- He is a member of the Republican Party.
- In 1968 he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
- In 1942, he joined the Army.
- In 1952, he recieved his Law Degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
- He attended the University of Kansas.
- He spent his childhood in Russell, Kansas,
- In 1975, he married Elizabeth Hanford.
