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| preceded=[[Frank Church]]

| preceded=[[Frank Church]]

| succeeded=[[Dirk Kempthorne]]

| succeeded=[[Dirk Kempthorne]]

| office2=[[United States Representative]] for Idaho's 1st congressional district

| office2=[[United States Representative]] for Idaho's 1st Congressional District

| term_start2=January 3, 1973

| term_start2=January 3, 1973

| term_end2=January 3, 1981

| term_end2=January 3, 1981

| death_place=

| death_place=

| residence=Caldwell, Idaho

| residence=Caldwell, Idaho

| spouse=(1) Frances Eugenia Stockdale Symms<br> (married 1959-1990, separated in 1987, divorced)

| spouse=(1) Frances Eugenia Stockdale Symms<br> (married 1959–1990, separated in 1987, divorced)

(2) Loretta E. Mathes Fuller Symms (married 1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19891206&id=giYuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ttAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6575,855565|publisher=''The Idahonian''newspaper=Idahonian|location=Moscow, Idaho|title=Symms wants to divorce estranged wife|date=December 6, 1989|page=12A}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6pMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q9AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2824%2C1581338|publisher=''The Idahonian''|title=Fran Symms picks up pieces after divorce|publisher=''Twin Falls Tribune''|author=Anita Dennis|date=June 13, 1991|page=1A}}</ref>

(2) Loretta E. Mathes Fuller Symms (married 1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19891206&id=giYuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ttAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6575,855565|publisher=''The Idahonian''newspaper=Idahonian|location=Moscow, Idaho|title=Symms wants to divorce estranged wife|date=December 6, 1989|page=12A}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6pMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q9AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2824%2C1581338|publisher=''The Idahonian''|title=Fran Symms picks up pieces after divorce|publisher=''Twin Falls Tribune''|author=Anita Dennis|date=June 13, 1991|page=1A}}</ref>

| children=Four children from first marriage  

| children=Four children from first marriage