The Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company enlisted the help of a Washington, D.C lobbyist and of Illinois Congressman Phil Crane, then-chairman of the United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, to get chewing gum on the agenda of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
Farrell's campaign received much less national attention than that concentrated on Melissa Bean's campaign to unseat House Dean Phil Crane.
However, when the full committee's chairman, Bill Archer of Texas, retired after the 2000 elections, Crane made a bid for the highly coveted post of Ways and Means chairman.
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He was the father of Republican U.S. congressmen Phil and Dan Crane.