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  Lowenstein, Allard K.
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NameAllard K. Lowenstein
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Long Beach, New York , United States
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Born January 16, 1929
Died March 14, 1980 (51 years)
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Tags Divorced - Army - Assassinated - Judaism -
Infoborn in Newark, Essex County, N.J., January 16, 1929; B.A., University of North Carolina, 1949; LL.B., Yale University, 1954; enlisted in the United States Army, 1954-1956; taught at Stanford University, North Carolina State University, and City College of New York; special assistant, Senator Frank Porter Graham, 1949; foreign policy assistant, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, 1959; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960 and 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first Congress (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1972, 1974, and 1976, to the Ninety-third, Ninety-fourth, and Ninety-fifth Congresses; appointed to head the United States delegation to the thirty-third regular annual session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, 1977; alternate United States Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador from August 1977 to June 1978; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; died from the effects of an assassin's bullet in New York City March 14, 1980; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.


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  09/12/1978 NY District 18 - D Primary Lost 40.27% (-4.44%)
  11/02/1976 NY District 05 Lost 44.33% (-11.35%)
  07/15/1976 US Vice President - D Convention Lost 0.17% (-94.11%)
  11/05/1974 NY District 05 Lost 45.76% (-8.47%)
  11/07/1972 NY District 14 Lost 28.10% (-25.79%)
  09/19/1972 NY District 14 - D Primary Re-Vote Lost 45.12% (-8.10%)
  07/13/1972 US Vice President - D Convention Lost 0.03% (-59.04%)
  06/20/1972 NY District 14 - D Primary Lost 45.00% (-3.63%)
  11/03/1970 NY District 5 Lost 46.08% (-4.94%)
  11/05/1968 NY District 5 Won 50.71% (+1.41%)
  07/29/1968 US Vice President - D Convention Lost 0.04% (-73.97%)
  06/18/1968 NY District 5 - D Primary Won 57.74% (+15.47%)
ENDORSEMENTS
New York City Mayor - Nov 04, 1969 D John V. Lindsay
US President - D Primaries - Jun 11, 1968 D Eugene J. "Gene" McCarthy
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