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  Feighan, Michael A.
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NameMichael A. Feighan
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Cleveland, Ohio , United States
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Born February 16, 1905
DiedMarch 19, 1992 (87 years)
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Sep 19, 2012 09:27pm
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Infoborn in Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 16, 1905; attended the public and parochial schools; was graduated from St. Ignatius High School and attended John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, for two years; A.B., Princeton University, 1927 and LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1931; was admitted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; member of the Ohio house of representatives 1937-1940, serving as Democratic floor leader in 1939 and 1940; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1971); chairman, Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy (Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on March 19, 1992.



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  05/05/1970 OH District 20 - D Primary Lost 33.28% (-24.51%)
  11/05/1968 OH District 20 Won 72.38% (+44.76%)
  05/07/1968 OH District 20 - D Primary Won 52.46% (+4.91%)
  11/08/1966 OH District 20 Won 76.05% (+52.11%)
  05/03/1966 OH District 20 - D Primary Won 36.02% (+0.79%)
  11/03/1964 OH District 20 Won 74.43% (+48.85%)
  05/05/1964 OH District 20 - D Primary Won 50.67% (+10.76%)
  11/06/1962 OH District 20 Won 71.04% (+42.07%)
  05/08/1962 OH District 20 - D Primary Won 80.45% (+60.89%)
  11/08/1960 OH District 20 Won 67.79% (+35.57%)
  05/03/1960 OH District 20 - D Primary Won 79.91% (+59.83%)
  11/04/1958 OH District 20 Won 79.43% (+58.87%)
  11/06/1956 OH District 20 Won 65.25% (+30.51%)
  11/02/1954 OH District 20 Won 67.66% (+35.32%)
  11/04/1952 OH District 20 Won 65.21% (+30.42%)
  11/07/1950 OH District 20 Won 74.21% (+48.43%)
  11/02/1948 OH District 20 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/05/1946 OH District 20 Won 66.99% (+33.98%)
  11/07/1944 OH District 20 Won 75.85% (+51.71%)
  11/03/1942 OH District 20 Won 61.81% (+36.70%)
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