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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1976 Party: Democrat
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HART, Philip Aloysius, a Senator from Michigan; 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; 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; third Senate Office Building named for Senator Hart in
1976; interred in St. Annes Catholic Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Mich.
BibliographyOBrien, Michael.
Philip Hart: The Conscience of the Senate. East Lansing:
Michigan State University Press, 1995; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses. 95th Cong., 1st sess., 1977. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977.
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