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John David Dingell, Sr. (b.
February 2 1894,
Detroit, Michigan – d.
September 19 1955,
Washington, D.C.) was an
American politician who represented
Michigan's 15th congressional district from 1933 to 1955.
Dingell was born in
Detroit and 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.
Following the
1930 U.S. Census,
Michigan gained four new seats in the
U.S. House of Representatives. In 1932, Dingell was elected as a
Democrat from the newly formed 15th District in western Detroit. He was reelected eleven times and served until his death at
Walter Reed Army Hospital in
Washington, D.C. at the age of 61. He is interred at the Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum in
Southfield, Michigan.
Reflecting the prevailing prejudices of the period, a memorable letter from Dingell to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt on
August 18 1941 suggested that ten thousand
Japanese-Hawaiian Americans be
incarcerated in order to ensure "good behavior" from
Japan (
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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.
In January 1995, John Dingell, Jr. became the
Dean, or the longest-serving member of the House and, as of 2006, the father and son together have 73 consecutive years of service in Congress.
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, Christopher D. Dingell, has also taken to politics, having been elected to the
Michigan State Senate in 1998.
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