Bill Kraus attended Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire), before working to gain funding to fight the disease AIDS.
He attended Dartmouth College for a semester and then Ohio State University from which he graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees in history. Dartmouth College (/drtm/ DART-mth) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Together, they worked on legislation to authorize funding to fight the AIDS epidemic. He went on to become an aide to U.S. Representatives Phillip and Sala Burton. Kraus accepted a job as liaison to the gay community for US Congressman Phillip Burton and, after Burton's death in 1983, to his widow Sala Burton who was elected to succeed her husband. 
