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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MontanaMichael Joseph (Mike) MANSFIELD
(1903-2001)
Senate Years of Service:
1953-1977Party: DemocratMANSFIELD, Michael Joseph
(Mike), a Representative and a Senator from Montana; born in
New York City, March 16, 1903; moved with his family to Great
Falls, Cascade County, Mont., in 1906; attended the public schools
in Great Falls; served as a seaman when only fourteen years old in
the United States Navy during the First World War, as a private in
the United States Army in 1919-1920, and as a private first class
in the United States Marine Corps 1920-1922; worked as a miner and
mining engineer in Butte, Mont., 1922-1930; attended the Montana
School of Mines at Butte in 1927 and 1928; graduated from Montana
State University at Missoula in 1933, and received a masters degree
from that institution in 1934; also attended the University of
California at Los Angeles in 1936 and 1937; professor of history
and political science at the Montana State University 1933-1942;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress; reelected to
the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1953);
was not a candidate for reelection in 1952, having become a
candidate for the Senate; chairman, Special Committee on Campaign
Expenditures (Eighty-first Congress); was elected to the United
States Senate in 1952; reelected in 1958, 1964, and 1970 and served
from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1977; Democratic whip
1957-1961; majority leader 1961-1977; chairman, Committee on Rules
and Administration (Eighty-seventh Congress), Select Committee on
Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-second Congress), Special
Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-third
Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976; Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan 1977-1988; East Asian
advisor, Goldman, Sachs; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
on January 19, 1989; was a resident of Washington, D.C. until his
death due to congestive heart failure on October 5, 2001; interment
in Arlington National Cemetery.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Valeo, Francis R.
Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader: A Different Kind of Senate,
1961-1976. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999; Oberdorfer, Don.
Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American
Statesman and Diplomat. Washington: Smithsonian Books,
2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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