John Dingell Sr.

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John D. Dingell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 15th district
In office
March 4, 1933 – September 19, 1955
Preceded byDistrict established
Succeeded byJohn Dingell, Jr.
Personal details
Born
John David Dingell

(1894-02-02)February 2, 1894
John D. Dingell Jr. (son)
Residence(s)Dearborn, Michigan

John David Dingell Sr. (February 2, 1894 – September 19, 1955) was an

U.S. Representative John Dingell
.

Early life

Dingell was born in

anglicized to 'Dingell'. A graduate of St. Casimir's Parochial School in Detroit, he worked as a newsboy, printer and newspaperman. He had also engaged in the construction of natural gas pipelines, was a wholesale dealer in beef and pork products and an organizer and trustee of Colorado Springs
Labor College.

Dingell married Grace Blossom Bigler (1894–1962) and had four children:

Colorado Springs to seek treatment there. There, John Jr. was born in 1926.[5]

Political career

Dingell first ran for office in 1924 when he ran for a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives from El Paso County but was defeated.[6]

Following the

Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., at the age of 61. He is interred at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Southfield
, Michigan.

At the outset of his Congressional career, Dingell was a "

Kimmel and [General Walter] Short be court-martialed."[8]

Legacy

After the September 19, 1955, death of the elder John Dingell, a special election called to fill the remainder of Dingell's term was won by his son, John Jr., who took his father's place in Congress on December 13, 1955. John Dingell Jr. retired from the House of Representatives as the longest-serving member of Congress in history at 59 years and 21 days and its longest serving Dean at 20 years on January 3, 2015, and his wife Debbie Dingell was elected to succeed him. As of 2023, the three Dingells had represented the southeastern Michigan area for 90 consecutive years.

A hallmark of their service has been a proposal for a national health insurance system, first introduced by John Sr. in 1933 and re-introduced since at every Congress by the father and then the son.

Dingell's grandson,

Michigan State Senate
in 1986.

See also

  • List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99)

References

  1. OCLC 1076485042.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  2. ^ "FamilySearch.org". Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  3. ISBN 978-0-06-257199-1
    .
  4. ^ The Dean, page 64
  5. ^ Detroit Free Press, 5.16.82; Congressman John D. Dingell
  6. ^ The Dean, page 59
  7. ^ The Dean, page 74
  8. ^ a b Flynn, John. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor (October 1945)
  9. ^ "Chronology of World War II Incarceration". janm.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-05-17.

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United States Representative for the 15th Congressional District of Michigan

1933 – 1955 		Succeeded by
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