John D. Dingell

A Representative from Michigan. Born in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colo. , July 8, 1926. Attended Capitol Page School, Washington, D. C. , and Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett Park, Md. Page, United States House of Representatives, 1938-1943. B. S. , Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. , 1949. J. D. , Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D. C. , 1952. United States Army, 1944-1946. Lawyer, private practice. Research assistant, United States Circuit Judge Theodore Levin, 1952-1953. Assistant prosecuting attorney of Wayne County, Mich. , 1954-1955. Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1956, 1960, 1968, 1980 and 1984. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, United States Representative John D. Dingell, Sr. , and reelected to the twenty-nine succeeding Congresses (December 13, 1955-January 3, 2015). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress in 2014. Chair, Committee on Energy and Commerce (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Third Congresses and One Hundred Tenth Congress). Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama, 2014. Died on February 7, 2019, in Dearborn, Mich. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.