Hastings Keith

Hastings Keith ( born November 22, 1915 in Brockton, Massachusetts, † July 19, 2005 ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1973 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hastings Keith graduated from Brockton High School and Deerfield Academy. Then he studied until 1938 at the University of Vermont in Burlington. In 1938 he took a degree at Harvard University. Keith became an officer in the National Guard of Massachusetts. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Army. He was used in Europe. Later, he was a colonel in the Army Reserve. In the years 1948 and 1949 he was a member of the faculty of the Evening College of Commerce, which is affiliated with the Boston University. From 1946 to 1952 he was also representative and district manager of a life insurance company in Boston. Keith was also later in the insurance industry and was until 1984 a partner in a general insurance company. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1953 to 1956 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. In 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1958, Keith was but then in the ninth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Donald W. Nicholson on January 3, 1959. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1973 seven legislative sessions. Since 1963 he represented there as the successor of John W. McCormack the twelfth district of his state. In this time were, among others, the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. 1972 Keith decided not to further candidacy.

In 1992, he applied first within his party for the nomination for the congressional elections of this year. He drew this candidacy but back again. Hastings Keith died on 19 July 2005 in his native Brockton.