Category: Michigan

Representative | Republican | HOFFMAN, CLARE EUGENE, a Representative from Michigan; born in Vicksburg, Union County, Pa., September 10, 1875; attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1895; was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Allegan, Mich.; prosecuting attorney for… Continue reading Clare Hoffman

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Representative | Progressive | WOODRUFF, ROY ORCHARD, a Representative from Michigan; born at Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Mich., March 14, 1876; attended the common schools and the high school of Eaton Rapids; apprenticed to the printing business 1891-1899; enlisted as a corporal in Company G, Thirty-third Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; saw… Continue reading Roy Woodruff

Representative | Democrat | LEVIN, SANDER MARTIN, a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., September 6, 1931; graduated from Central High School, Detroit, Mich.; B.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1952; M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1954; LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1957; lawyer, private practice; member of the Michigan state… Continue reading Sander Levin

Representative | Republican | BROOMFIELD, WILLIAM S., a Representative from Michigan; born in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Mich., April 28, 1922; graduated from high school in 1940; attended Michigan State College at East Lansing; during the Second World War served in the United States Army Air Corps; engaged in the real-estate and property-management business; member… Continue reading William Broomfield

Representative | Democrat | KILDEE, DALE EDWARD, (uncle of Dan Kildee), a Representative from Michigan; born in Flint, Genesee County, Mich., September 16, 1929; graduated from St. Mary’s High School, Flint, Mich., 1947; B.A., Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, Mich., 1952; teacher’s certificate, University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., 1955; graduate work, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 1958-1959;… Continue reading Dale Kildee

Representative | Democrat | CONYERS, JOHN, JR., a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., May 16, 1929; attended Detroit public schools; B.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., 1957; LL.B., Wayne State Law School, Detroit, Mich., 1958; lawyer, private practice; Michigan National Guard, 1948-1950; United States Army, 1950-1954; United States Army Reserve, 1954-1957;… Continue reading John Conyers

Representative | Democrat | DINGELL, JOHN DAVID, (father of John David Dingell, Jr.), a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., February 2, 1894; newsboy, printer, and newspaperman; engaged in natural-gas pipeline construction; wholesale dealer in beef and pork products; organizer and trustee of Colorado Springs Labor College; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third… Continue reading John Dingell

Representative | Republican | FORD, GERALD RUDOLPH, JR., a Representative from Michigan, Vice President, and thirty-eighth President of the United States; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., July 14, 1913; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., 1914 and attended the public schools; graduated, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich., 1935; graduated from Yale University Law… Continue reading Gerald Ford

Senator | Democrat | CASS, LEWIS, (Great-great-grandfather of Cass Ballenger), a Senator from Michigan; born in Exeter, N.H., October 9, 1782; attended Exeter Academy; moved with his parents to Wilmington, Del., in 1799 and taught school there; moved to the Northwest Territory in 1801 and settled on a farm near Zanesville, Ohio; studied law and… Continue reading Lewis Cass