Peter H. Dominick

Peter H. Dominick

Peter Hoyt Dominick (born July 7, 1915 in Stamford , Connecticut , †  March 18, 1981 in Hobe Sound , Florida ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Colorado in both chambers of Congress .

Peter Dominick graduated from St. Mark's School in Southborough in 1933 and graduated from Yale University in 1937 , where he was a member of the Scroll and Key fraternity . In 1940 he passed his bar exam at Yale Law School, after which he initially practiced in New York . In 1942 he joined the United States Army Air Corps and served as a flight cadet. By the end of the war in 1945, he had achieved the rank of captain . After retiring from the military, he briefly returned to New York before settling in Denver as a lawyer in 1946 .

His political career began in 1957 with membership in the Colorado House of Representatives , to which he was a member until 1961. That year he moved into the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he was elected to defeat the Democratic incumbent Byron L. Johnson . After only one legislative term, Dominick ran for a seat in the United States Senate in 1962 and was again successful; here, too, with John A. Carroll, his opponent left office for election. As a Senator, Dominick followed in the footsteps of his uncle Howard Alexander Smith , who served in this Chamber of Parliament for New Jersey from 1944 to 1959 .

Dominick was challenged in 1968 by former governor Stephen McNichols , but he clearly defeated him with a 58.6 percent share of the vote. He was then from 1971 to 1973, among other things, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee . In 1974 he ran for a third time, but this time was defeated in the national trend to the Democrat Gary Hart , Dominick only got 39.5 percent of the vote.

After retiring from the Senate Dominick of was US President Gerald Ford to the United States Ambassador in Switzerland appointed. He held this office as the successor to Shelby Cullom Davis but only from April 25 to July 10, 1975; after that he retired to Cherry Hills Village .

Web links

• Peter H. Dominick in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Peter H. Dominick in the database of Find a Grave (English)