William M. Brodhead

William McNulty Brodhead ( born September 12, 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Brodhead attended until 1959, the St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland and then studied until 1965 at Wayne State University in Detroit. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1968 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the years 1970 and 1972 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Michigan. Between 1968 and 1974 he was a delegate to the party days of the Democrats at the state level. In the congressional elections of 1974 Brodhead was in the 17th electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martha Griffiths on January 3, 1975. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1983 four legislative sessions.

1982 Brodhead renounced to another candidacy. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1994, he lost in the Democratic primary for the election to the U.S. Senate against Milton Robert Carr, in turn, then the Republicans Spencer Abraham defeated. Until 2003 he worked in a community law firm.

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