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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsHastings KEITH
(1915-2005)
KEITH, Hastings, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass., November 22, 1915; graduated from Brockton High
School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont at
Burlington in 1938; graduate work at Harvard University in 1938;
member of the faculty of the Boston University Evening College of
Commerce in 1948 and 1949; in 1933 was a student in the Citizens
Military Training Camps; served as battery officer in Massachusetts
National Guard; during the Second World War served in the United
States Army with eighteen months overseas service in Europe;
graduate of the Command and General Staff School; colonel in the
Army Reserve; salesman and later district manager for the Equitable
Life Assurance Society in Boston, Mass., 1946-1952; member of the
State senate 1953-1956; partner in a general insurance firm,
Brockton, Mass., 1946-1984; unsuccessful candidate for the
Republican nomination for Congress in 1956; elected as a Republican
to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January
3, 1959-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in
1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was a candidate for nomination
in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress until he withdrew from
the race; died on July 19, 2005, in Brockton, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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