Dale Kildee

Dale Edward Kildee ( born September 16, 1929 in Flint, Michigan) is an American politician. Between 1977 and 2013 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dale Kildee visited until 1947, the St. Mary's High School in his hometown of Flint. After that, he was until 1952 at the Sacred Heart Seminary enrolled in Detroit. Subsequently, he studied until 1955 at the University of Detroit, where he was trained as a teacher. In the years 1958 and 1959 he was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship at the University of Peshawar in Pakistan, where he studied history and political science. In 1961 he finished his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Between 1954 and 1964 he taught intermittently as a teacher.

Politically, Kildee joined the Democratic Party. Between 1965 and 1974 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan; in the years 1975 and 1976 he was a member of the State Senate. From 1956 to 1977 he was a delegate to all the regional Democratic Party days in Michigan. In the years 1968 and 1984 he took part in the respective Democratic National Conventions.

In the congressional elections of 1976 Kildee was in the seventh constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Donald W. Riegle on January 3, 1977. After 17 Re-elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2013. Most recently, he had been elected in 2010 with 53 percent of the vote in the fifth electoral district; to 1993, he was the seventh district and then represented by 2003 the ninth. He was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, the Committee on Natural Resources and in two sub-committees. In 2012, he renounced another candidacy. His parliamentary seat fell after the election of 2012 to his nephew Daniel, who replaced him on January 3, 2013 by Congress.

Dale Kildee is married to Gayle Heyn and private lives in Flint.

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