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Senate Years of Service: 1974-1974; 1976-1995 Party: Democrat; Democrat
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METZENBAUM, Howard Morton, a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, June
4, 1917; graduated, Ohio State University, Columbus 1939; graduated, Ohio State
University School of Law 1941; admitted to the Ohio bar in 1941 and commenced
practice in Cleveland; member, Ohio house of representatives 1943-1947; member,
Ohio senate 1947-1951; campaign manager for United States Senator Stephen M.
Young 1958, 1964; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United States
Senate 1970; chairman of a group of suburban weeklies in the Cleveland area;
appointed by the Governor, January 4, 1974, as a Democrat to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Saxbe and
served from January 4, 1974, until his resignation December 23, 1974;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1974; resumed the practice of law;
elected on November 2, 1976, to the United States Senate for the term
commencing January 3, 1977; subsequently appointed by the Governor, December
29, 1976, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Taft, Jr. for
the term ending January 3, 1983; reelected in 1982 and 1988 and served from
December 29, 1976, to January 3, 1995; was not a candidate for reelection in
1994; chairman, Consumer Federation of America (1995-2008); died in Aventura,
Florida, on March 12, 2008; interment in Mayfield Cemetery, Cleveland Heights,
Ohio.
BibliographyPatterson, Samuel C., and Thomas W. Kephart. The Case of the
Wayfaring Challenger: The 1988 Senate Election in Ohio. Congress &
the Presidency 18 (Autumn 1991): 105-20.
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