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  Keith, Hastings
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NameHastings Keith
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West Bridgewater, Massachusetts , United States
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Born November 22, 1915
DiedJuly 19, 2005 (89 years)
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Feb 23, 2024 05:31pm
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InfoKEITH, Hastings, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Brockton, Plymouth County, Mass., November 22, 1915; graduated from Brockton High School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1938; graduate work at Harvard University in 1938; member of the faculty of the Boston University Evening College of Commerce in 1948 and 1949; in 1933 was a student in the Citizens Military Training Camps; served as battery officer in Massachusetts National Guard; during the Second World War served in the United States Army with eighteen months overseas service in Europe; graduate of the Command and General Staff School; colonel in the Army Reserve; salesman and later district manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Boston, Mass., 1946-1952; member of the State senate 1953-1956; partner in a general insurance firm, Brockton, Mass., 1946-1984; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was a candidate for nomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress until he withdrew from the race; died on July 19, 2005, in Brockton, Mass.; interment in Union Cemetery, Brockton, Mass.


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Jul 22, 2005 11:00am Obituary Hastings Keith, former U.S. representative, dies at 89  Article Thomas Walker 

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  11/03/1970 MA District 12 Won 50.38% (+0.76%)
  09/15/1970 MA District 12 - R Primary Won 54.54% (+9.11%)
  11/05/1968 MA District 12 Won 99.91% (+99.82%)
  11/08/1966 MA District 12 Won 55.00% (+10.01%)
  11/03/1964 MA District 12 Won 59.63% (+19.25%)
  09/10/1964 MA District 12 - R Primary Won 88.89% (+77.79%)
  11/06/1962 MA District 12 Won 64.19% (+28.39%)
  11/08/1960 MA District 9 Won 55.71% (+11.41%)
  11/04/1958 MA District 9 Won 54.69% (+9.38%)
  09/09/1958 MA District 9 - R Primary Won 34.28% (+8.12%)
  09/18/1956 MA District 09 - R Primary Lost 44.08% (-11.84%)
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