| LC control no. | n 87870687 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Griffin, Robert P. (Robert Paul), 1923-2015 |
| Birth date | 19231106 |
| Death date | 20150416 |
| Place of birth | Detroit (Mich.) |
| Place of death | Traverse City (Mich.) |
| Affiliation | Central Michigan College University of Michigan. Law School United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Scott, H. Papers, 1925-1977 (Griffin, Robert Paul, 1923- ) Martindale-Hubbell, 1986, vol. III: p. 2459B (Griffin, Robert P.; lawyer of Traverse City, Mich.; b. 1923; former U.S. Senator from Mich.) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. website, April 24, 2014 (Griffin, Robert Paul, a Representative and a Senator from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., November 6, 1923; attended public schools in Garden City and Dearborn, Mich.; during the Second World War enlisted in 1943 and served three years in the U.S. Army, fourteen months in the European theater; graduated, Central Michigan College at Mount Pleasant 1947; received law degree from University of Michigan Law School 1950; admitted to the bar in 1950 and commenced the practice of law in Traverse City, Mich.; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1957, until his resignation May 10, 1966; appointed on May 11, 1966, to the United States Senate to fill vacancy caused by the death of Patrick V. McNamara; elected November 8, 1966, to full six-year term commencing January 3, 1967; reelected in 1972 and served from May 11, 1966, to January 2, 1979; Republican whip 1969-1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1978; is a resident of Traverse City, Mich.) New York times (online), viewed Apr. 20, 2015 (in obituary published Apr. 17: Robert P. Griffin; b. Robert Paul Griffin, Nov. 6, 1923, Detroit; d. Thursday [Apr. 16, 2015], Traverse City, Mich., aged 91; former Republican senator and congressman from Michigan who co-sponsored one of the nation's most rigorous laws to fight corruption in unions and who delivered a critical blow to Richard M. Nixon's presidency by withdrawing his support during the Watergate crisis) |
| Associated language | eng |
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