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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Philip A. Hart |
Address | Mackinac Island, Michigan , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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December 10, 1912
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Died | December 26, 1976
(64 years)
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Contributor | RP |
Last Modifed | RBH Feb 22, 2022 05:00pm |
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Irish - Cancer - Army - Catholic -
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Info | born 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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