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.
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