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  Metcalf, Lee W.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameLee W. Metcalf
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Helena, Montana , United States
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Born January 28, 1911
DiedJanuary 12, 1978 (66 years)
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Feb 22, 2022 05:53pm
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Infoborn in Stevensville, Ravalli County, Mont., January 28, 1911; attended the public schools; graduated from Stanford University in 1936 and received a law degree from Montana State University Law School; was admitted to the Montana bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of law; member, State house of representatives 1937; assistant attorney general of Montana 1937-1941; in December 1942 enlisted in the Army, attended officers� training school, was commissioned, went overseas in 1944, and participated in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge; after V-E Day was concerned with the care and repatriation of displaced; helped in drafting ordinances for the first free local elections in Germany and supervised the free elections in Bavaria; discharged from the Army as a first lieutenant in April 1946; associate justice of the Montana supreme court 1946-1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1961); was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1960 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1966 and again in 1972 and served from January 3, 1961, until his death in Helena, Mont., January 12, 1978; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Congressional Operations (Ninety-third and Ninety-fifth Congresses); cremated; ashes scattered in one of his favorite areas in the wilderness of the State of Montana.


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  11/07/1972 MT US Senate Won 51.95% (+3.90%)
  06/06/1972 MT US Senate- D Primary Won 86.42% (+72.85%)
  11/08/1966 MT US Senate Won 53.17% (+6.34%)
  11/08/1960 MT US Senate Won 50.73% (+1.46%)
  06/07/1960 MT US Senate - D Primary Won 35.16% (+9.38%)
  11/04/1958 MT District 1 Won 69.49% (+38.98%)
  06/03/1958 MT District 1 - D Primary Won 66.70% (+33.39%)
  11/06/1956 MT District 1 Won 62.05% (+24.10%)
  11/02/1954 MT District 1 Won 55.98% (+11.96%)
  07/20/1954 MT District 1 - D Primary Won 72.35% (+44.69%)
  11/04/1952 MT District 1 Won 50.32% (+1.44%)
  07/15/1952 MT District 1 - D Primary Won 35.53% (+0.14%)
ENDORSEMENTS
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 17, 1975 R John Paul Stevens
US Secretary of the Interior - Jun 11, 1975 R Stanley K. Hathaway
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 15, 1971 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 09, 1971 D Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
Nobel Peace Prize - Oct 10, 1970 N Clarence Streit
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - May 17, 1970 R Harry Blackmun
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Apr 08, 1970 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Nov 21, 1969 NPA Reject
CIA Director - Nov 29, 1961 NPA Reject