Sander Levin

Sander Martin Levin ( born September 6, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. Since 1983 he represents the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sander Levin attended Central High School in Detroit and then studied until 1952 at the University of Chicago and then to 1954 at Columbia University in New York City. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1957 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Levin joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1964 and 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. Between 1965 and 1970 he sat in the Senate from Michigan. In the years 1970 and 1974, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of each Governor of Michigan; while he lost the Republican William Milliken, respectively. From 1977 to 1981 Levin served as an Assistant Administrator board member of the United States Agency for International Development.

In the congressional elections of 1982, Levin 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 William M. Brodhead on January 3, 1983. After 14 previous elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. Since he was also confirmed in the elections of 2010, with 61% of the vote against Don Volaric, he can take another two -year term in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 2011. This election victory was in contrast to the national trend, in which the Republican Party won the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Sander Levin was March 4, 2010 to January 3, 2011 as the successor to the retiring Charles B. Rangel Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means; since it acts there as a senior member of the Democratic minority highest fraction ( Ranking Member). He is also a member of two of its subcommittees. After the dissolution of the 17th electoral district of Michigan in 1992, Sander Levin represents from 3 January 1993 as a successor of David E. Bonior the twelfth district of his state.

Levin's wife Vickie died in 2008; he is the father of four children. His son Andy missed in 2006 as the Democratic candidate for election to the Senate from Michigan. His younger brother Carl (* 1934) is since 1979, U.S. Senator for Michigan. Private Sander Levin lives in Royal Oak.