US Congressman. He was a native of Pushthrough, Dominion of Newfoundland, he and his family moved to the United States in 1929 and settled in Cranston, Rhode Island. While serving in the United States Navy as an officer during World War II, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Union College, New York in 1945, then after leaving the US Navy, received his Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in the University of Michigan in 1959. He became involved with city politics and was chairman of the Ann Arbor City Democratic Committee from 1959 to 1960. In the 1964 general elections, he ran as a member of the Democratic Party for Michigan's 2nd congressional district and served for a single two-year term in the United States House of Representatives before losing narrowly re-election in 1966. A champion of civil rights and social programs, his term was from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1967. According to his obituary, in February of 1965, he traveled to Selma, Alabama with a 12-member congressional delegation and met with Martin Luther King, who had been jailed for leading protests over voter suppression. He joined the NAACP and worked to pass the Voting Rights Act and the Social Security Amendments that resulted in Medicare and Medicaid, all signed into law in 1965. Initially he supported President Johnson's Vietnam policy but eventually favored a gradual US military withdrawal. Following the end of his political career in 1968, he served as vice president of Vicom Industries, a company that he co-founded in 1960, and later worked in the telecommunications department as a senior consultant, working with cases with various data networks worldwide. He was married and the couple had four children. His wife died in 1969 and he remained a widower for fifty years.
US Congressman. He was a native of Pushthrough, Dominion of Newfoundland, he and his family moved to the United States in 1929 and settled in Cranston, Rhode Island. While serving in the United States Navy as an officer during World War II, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Union College, New York in 1945, then after leaving the US Navy, received his Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in the University of Michigan in 1959. He became involved with city politics and was chairman of the Ann Arbor City Democratic Committee from 1959 to 1960. In the 1964 general elections, he ran as a member of the Democratic Party for Michigan's 2nd congressional district and served for a single two-year term in the United States House of Representatives before losing narrowly re-election in 1966. A champion of civil rights and social programs, his term was from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1967. According to his obituary, in February of 1965, he traveled to Selma, Alabama with a 12-member congressional delegation and met with Martin Luther King, who had been jailed for leading protests over voter suppression. He joined the NAACP and worked to pass the Voting Rights Act and the Social Security Amendments that resulted in Medicare and Medicaid, all signed into law in 1965. Initially he supported President Johnson's Vietnam policy but eventually favored a gradual US military withdrawal. Following the end of his political career in 1968, he served as vice president of Vicom Industries, a company that he co-founded in 1960, and later worked in the telecommunications department as a senior consultant, working with cases with various data networks worldwide. He was married and the couple had four children. His wife died in 1969 and he remained a widower for fifty years.
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