Carl Levin, Michigan s longest-serving senator, died on Thursday. He was 87.
In a statement, Levin s family said that whether he was chairing a hearing on critical national security issues or working on behalf of his home state, he believed that collaboration and compromise served our common purpose better than partisanship and political brinkmanship.
Levin, a Democrat, represented Michigan in the Senate from 1979 until his retirement in 2015. Before going to Congress, the Harvard Law graduate worked at the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, was a public defender in his hometown of Detroit, and sat on the Detroit City Council.
During his time in the Senate, Levin pushed for tax reform and the creation of more manufacturing jobs in the United States, raised pay for military members, and voted against the Iraq War. Levin s memoir,
Carl Levin, Michigan s longest serving U.S. senator, dies at 87
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Carl Levin, a liberal Democrat who rose from a prominent Detroit family to become Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator and helped set military priorities and investigate corporate behavior for decades before retiring in 2015, died Thursday. He was 87.
The Levin Center at Wayne State University, which was formed on the senator s behalf after he left the Senate, put out a statement late Thursday, saying, With great sadness and heavy hearts, the (center and family) announce the passing of Senator Carl Levin.
Levin disclosed in his recently published memoir, Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate, that he was diagnosed with lung cancer nearly four years ago, when he was 83.
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Carl Levin, Michigan s longest-serving senator, dies at 87
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Former Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) died on July 29, 2021, at age 87. (AP)
DETROIT: Famous for gazing over eyeglasses worn on the end of his nose, Carl Levin seemed at ease wherever he went, whether attending a college football game back home in Michigan or taking on a multibillion-dollar corporation before cameras on Capitol Hill. Michigan s longest-serving US senator had a slightly rumpled, down-to-earth demeanour that helped him win over voters throughout his 36-year career, as did his staunch support for the hometown auto industry. But the Harvard-educated attorney also was a respected voice on military issues, spending years leading the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Carl Levin, Michigan s longest serving U.S. senator, dies at 87
Carl Levin, a liberal Democrat who rose from a prominent Detroit family to become Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator and helped set military priorities and investigate corporate behavior for decades before retiring in 2015, died Thursday. He was 87.
The Levin Center at Wayne State University put out a statement late Thursday, saying, With great sadness and heavy hearts, the (center and family) announce the passing of Senator Carl Levin.
Levin disclosed in his recently published memoir, Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate, that he was diagnosed with lung cancer nearly four years ago, when he was 83.