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Years of Service: 1953-1977 Party: Democrat
MANSFIELD, Michael Joseph (Mike), a
Representative and a Senator from Montana; born in New York City, March 16,
1903; moved with his family to Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont., in 1906;
attended the public schools in Great Falls; served as a seaman when only
fourteen years old in the United States Navy during the First World War, as a
private in the United States Army in 1919 and 1920, and as a private first class
in the United States Marine Corps 1920-1922; worked as a miner and mining
engineer in Butte, Mont., 1922-1930; attended the Montana School of Mines at
Butte in 1927 and 1928; graduated from Montana State University at Missoula in
1933, and received a masters degree from that institution in 1934; also attended
the University of California at Los Angeles in 1936 and 1937; professor of
history and political science at the Montana State University 1933-1942; elected
as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress; reelected to the four succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for reelection
in 1952, having become a candidate for the Senate; chairman, Special Committee
on Campaign Expenditures (Eighty-first Congress); was elected to the United
States Senate in 1952; reelected in 1958, 1964, and again in 1970 and served
from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1977; Democratic whip 1957-1961; majority
leader 1961-1977; chairman, Committee on Rules and Administration
(Eighty-seventh Congress), Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents
(Ninety-second Congress), Special Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents
(Ninety-third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976; Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan, 1977-1988; East Asian advisor,
Goldman, Sachs; is a resident of Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
Baldwin, Louis. Honorable Politician: Mike Mansfield of Montana.
Missoula: Mountain Press, 1979; Valeo, Francis R. Mike Mansfield, Majority
Leader: A Different Kind of Senate, 1961-1976. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe,
1999.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress