LC control no. | n 91107669 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Levin, Carl, 1934-2021 |
Birth date | 1934-06-28 |
Death date | 2021-07-29 |
Place of birth | Detroit (Mich.) |
Place of death | Detroit (Mich.) |
Affiliation | Swarthmore College Harvard Law School United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
Profession or occupation | Legislators |
Found in | NUCMC data from Wayne State Univ. Walter P. Reuther Lib. for National Organization for Women. Downriver Chapter (Mich.). Records, 1971-1988 (Hon. Carl Levin, correspondent) Bio. dir. Am. congress, 1774-1989 (Levin, Carl (brother of Sander Martin Levin), senator from Mich.; party: Democrat; b. Detroit, Mich., Jun. 28, 1934; grad., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., 1956; grad., Harvard Law School, 1959; elect. 1978 to U.S. Senate for term commencing Jan. 3, 1979) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed July 30, 2021 (Levin, Carl, (Brother of Sander Martin Levin), a Senator from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., June 28, 1934; attended Detroit public schools; graduated, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., 1956; graduated, Harvard Law School 1959; admitted to the Michigan bar in 1959 and commenced practice in Detroit; assistant attorney general and general counsel for the Michigan civil rights commission 1964-1967; special assistant attorney general for the State of Michigan and chief appellate defender for the city of Detroit 1968-1969; member, Detroit city council 1969-1973; president, Detroit city council 1974-1977; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1978; reelected in 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and again in 2008, and served from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 2015; chair, Committee on Armed Services (One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003]; One Hundred Tenth to One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 2014; was a resident of Detroit, Mich., until his death on July 29, 2021) |
Associated language | eng |