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  Hart, Philip A.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
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NamePhilip A. Hart
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Mackinac Island, Michigan , United States
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Born December 10, 1912
DiedDecember 26, 1976 (64 years)
ContributorRP
Last ModifedRBH
Feb 22, 2022 05:00pm
Tags Irish - Cancer - Army - Catholic -
Infoborn in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., December 10, 1912; attended Waldron Academy and parochial schools; graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1934 and from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor in 1937; was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1938 and commenced the practice of law in Detroit, Mich.; during the Second World War served in the United States Army from 1941 until discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant colonel of Infantry; wounded during the D-Day assault on Utah Beach in Normandy; Michigan Corporation Securities Commissioner from 1949 until his resignation in 1951; State director of the Office of Price Stabilization 1951-1952; United States district attorney of the Eastern Michigan District 1952-1953; legal adviser to the Governor of Michigan 1953-1954; lieutenant governor 1955-1958; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964 and again in 1970 and served from January 3, 1959, until his death in Washington, D.C., December 26, 1976; was not a candidate for reelection in 1976; the third of the Senate Office Buildings was officially dedicated and named for Senator Hart in 1987; interred in St. Anne�s Catholic Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Mich.


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  07/15/1976 US Vice President - D Convention Lost 0.07% (-94.21%)
  11/03/1970 MI US Senate Won 66.83% (+33.95%)
  11/03/1964 MI US Senate Won 64.38% (+29.04%)
  11/04/1958 MI US Senate Won 53.57% (+7.48%)
  08/05/1958 MI US Senate- D Primary Won 80.24% (+60.48%)
  11/06/1956 MI Lt. Governor Won 52.28% (+4.80%)
  11/02/1954 MI Lt. Governor Won 54.15% (+8.61%)
  11/07/1950 MI Secretary of State Lost 44.14% (-10.85%)
ENDORSEMENTS
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 17, 1975 R John Paul Stevens
CIA Director - Sep 04, 1973 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 15, 1971 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 09, 1971 D Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - May 17, 1970 R Harry Blackmun
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Apr 08, 1970 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Nov 21, 1969 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Aug 30, 1967 D Thurgood Marshall