Carl Levin
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Carl Milton Levin (born June 28, 1934) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015.
He was the chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and is a member of the Democratic Party. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Levin is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School.
He worked as the General Counsel of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1964 to 1967, and as a special assistant attorney general for the Michigan Attorney General's Office.
Levin was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1968, serving from 1969 to 1977, and was president of the City Council from 1973 to 1977. In 1978, Levin ran for the United States Senate, defeating Republican incumbent Robert P. Griffin.
Levin was re-elected in 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008.
On March 7, 2013, Levin announced that he would not seek a seventh term to the Senate.
On March 9, 2015, Levin announced he was joining the Detroit-based law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP.Levin became Michigan's senior senator in 1995.
He is the longest-serving senator in the state's history, and was ultimately the fourth longest-serving incumbent in the U.S. Senate.
Personal life and death
Carl Levin married Barbara Halpern in 1961, and they had three daughters and six grandchildren.
Levin's family has long been active in Michigan politics. His elder brother, Sander Levin, represented Michigan's 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2019. Sander's son Andy Levin was a policy analyst for the AFL–CIO, and was elected in 2018 to the United States House of Representatives, succeeding his retiring father. Carl's uncle Theodore Levin was a chief judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Carl's first cousin Charles Levin was a Michigan Supreme Court judge; another first cousin, Joseph Levin, was a candidate for the House.
In March 2021, Levin disclosed that he had lung cancer. Levin died at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on July 29, 2021, at age 87.
Early life, education, and career
Bess Rachel (née Levinson) and Saul R. Levin were both born in Detroit, the son of Jewish parents. Saul served on the Michigan Corrections Commission. Levin graduated from Detroit Central High School in 1952 and attended Swarthmore College. In 1956, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He worked as a taxi driver and on an auto factory line during his undergraduate years. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1959. He received honorary degrees from Swarthmore College in 1980, Michigan State University in 2004, and Michigan Technological University in 2008.
Levin was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan after obtaining his Juris Doctor degree. He began practicing law at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit Mercy, in private practice. Levin served as GM for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1964 to 1967, where he helped create the Detroit Public Defender's Office and led the company's appellate Division, which has since been designated as the State Appellate Defender's Office. From 1968 to 1969, he served as a special assistant attorney general for Michigan and chief appellate advocate for Detroit, Michigan.
Levin was elected to the Detroit Common Council in 1969 (now called the Detroit Common Council) and served for two-year terms from 1970 to 1977. Levin served as president of the City Council during his entire second term until the end of his term. Levin became so dissatisfie with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's treatment of repossessed houses in Detroit (leading communities are in danger of significant urban decay), that he and other members of the council went out with a bulldozer "to help raze some of the houses." He was close to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, the city's first African-American Mayor, and Forbes named him as Mayor Young's "right hand man." Levin practiced law part-time while serving as a consultant for the Schlussel, Lifton, Simon, Rands, and Kaufman law firm from 1971 to 1973. He served as the general counsel at Jaffe, Snider, Raitt, Garratt, and Heuer from 1978 to 1979.
Honors and awards
- In 2004 he received the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Oakland University.
- In 2004, he was presented the National Guard Association of the U.S. Harry S. Truman Award.
- In 2006, Time named him one of the "10 best senators".
- In 2007, he was awarded the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation's Freedom medal.
- In 2011, he received Global Financial Integrity's Award for Exemplary Leadership for his "untiring efforts on behalf of financial integrity in the U.S. and abroad."
- In 2013, he was given the Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Medal.
- In 2014, he was awarded the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Leadership Award.
- In 2014, he was awarded the First Global Citizen Award from Lawrence Tech.
- In 2016, USS Carl M. Levin, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was named in his honor, and was christened in 2021.