Metzenbaum, Howard M.

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Name (Hebrew)
מצנבאום, הווארד
Name (Latin)
Metzenbaum, Howard M.
Date of birth
1917-06-04
Date of death
2008-03-12
Place of birth
Cleveland (Ohio)
Place of death
Aventura (Fla.)
Associate group
Ohio State University
Ohio State University. College of Law
Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives (1943 - 1943)
Ohio. General Assembly. Senate
Ohio. General Assembly. Senate (1947 - 1947)
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate (1974-01-04 - 1974-01-04)
United States. Congress. Senate (1976-12-29 - 1976-12-29)
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Occupation
Legislators
Lawyers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Howard Morton
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 53052550
Wikidata: Q330165
Library of congress: n 82253767
Sources of Information
  • Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, September 10, 2013:(Metzenbaum, Howard Morton, Senate years of service: 1974-1974; 1976-1995; a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, June 4, 1917; graduated, Ohio State University, Columbus 1939; graduated, Ohio State University School of Law 1941; admitted to the Ohio bar in 1941 and commenced practice in Cleveland; member, Ohio house of representatives 1943-1947; member, Ohio senate 1947-1951; campaign manager for United States Senator Stephen M. Young 1958, 1964; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United States Senate 1970; chairman of a group of suburban weeklies in the Cleveland area; appointed by the Governor, January 4, 1974, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Saxbe and served from January 4, 1974, until his resignation December 23, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1974; resumed the practice of law; elected on November 2, 1976, to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1977; subsequently appointed by the Governor, December 29, 1976, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Taft, Jr. for the term ending January 3, 1983; reelected in 1982 and 1988 and served from December 29, 1976, to January 3, 1995; was not a candidate for reelection in 1994; chairman, Consumer Federation of America (1995-2008); died in Aventura, Florida, on March 12, 2008; interment in Mayfield Cemetery, Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
  • United States. General Accounting Office. Pipeline purchases of high-cost natural gas, 1982:t.p. (Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum)
  • NUCMC data from Western Reserve Hist. Soc. for His Papers, 1974(Howard M. Metzenbaum; appt. to U.S. Senate to fill the unexpired term of William Saxbe of Ohio in l974)
  • WWAm pol., 1980(Metzenbaum, Howard Morton, senator; b. Cleveland, Ohio, 4 June 1917; s. Charles I. and Anna Klafter M.; m. Shirley Tieroff, 1946; legal address: Shaker Heights, Ohio)
  • New York times WWW site, Mar. 18, 2008(in obituary published Mar. 14: Howard M. Metzenbaum; b. Howard Morton Metzenbaum, June 4, 1917, Cleveland; d. Wednesday [Mar. 12, 2008], Aventura, Fla., aged 90; for nearly two decades as a Democratic senator from Ohio fought conservatives and big business with such effectiveness and ferocity that he became known as "the last angry liberal")