Biography
A Representative from Michigan. Born in Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Mich. , July 4, 1922. Enrolled in the University of Michigan in 1940 but interrupted studies in 1942 to serve in the United States Army Air Corps for three years. LL. B. , University of Michigan Law School, 1948. Admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Saginaw, Mich. , in 1949. Assistant city attorney, 1949-1953. City councilman and member of Saginaw County board of supervisors, 1955-1957. Mayor of Saginaw, 1957-1959. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 31, 1974). Resigned on January 31, 1974. Appointed by President Richard Nixon as a United States District Court judge for the Eastern District, Michigan, 1974-1984. United States Senior District judge, 1984-2002. Died on July 20, 2019, in Naples, Fla. Interment at Glendale Cemetery, Okemos, Mich.
