Dante B. Fascell

A Representative from Florida. Born in Bridgehampton, Long Island, Suffolk County, N. Y. , March 9, 1917. Moved with his parents to Miami, Fla. , in 1925. Graduated from Ponce de Leon High School, Coral Gables, Fla. , 1933. J. D. , University of Miami, Miami, Fla. , 1938. Admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced the practice of law in Miami. During the Second World War entered the Federal service with the Florida National Guard on January 6, 1941. Commissioned a second lieutenant May 23, 1942. Served in the African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns, and separated from the service as a captain January 20, 1946. Legal attaché. To the Florida state legislative delegation from Dade County, 1947-1950. Member of the Florida state house of representatives, 1950-1954. Appointed by the President to represent the United States at the Twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations, 1969. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the eighteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1993). Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Ninety-eighth through One Hundred Second Congresses). Was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Practiced law in Miami. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President William J. Clinton, 1998. Died November 28, 1998, in Clearwater, Fla. Interment in Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Fla.