Sander M. Levin

Sander M. Levin

Sander Martin Levin (born September 6, 1931 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1983 to 2019 he represented the state of Michigan in the United States House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Sander Levin attended Central High School in Detroit and then studied until 1952 at the University of Chicago and then until 1954 at Columbia University in New York City . After completing a law degree at Harvard University , he was admitted to the bar in 1957 and worked as such.

From 1977 to 1981 Levin served as an Assistant Administrator on the board of directors of the United States Agency for International Development .

Sander Levin lives in Royal Oak . His younger brother Carl (* 1934) was a US Senator for Michigan. Levin's wife Vickie died in 2008. He is the father of four children. His eldest son Andy missed the Michigan Senate election in 2006 as a Democratic nominee and succeeded his father in Congress in 2019.

Political career

In 1964 and 1968 Levin was a delegate of the Democratic National Conventions , the presidential nomination party conventions . Between 1965 and 1970 he was a member of the Michigan Senate . In 1970 and 1974 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Michigan; while he was subject to the Republican William Milliken .

In the 1982 election , Levin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th Congressional constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded William M. Brodhead on January 3, 1983 . After 17 re-elections, most recently in 2016 , he exercised his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2019. Due to restructuring, the number of his congressional constituency changed several times, but it has always included - sometimes different - suburbs of Detroit. From 1983 to 1993 he represented the 17th, then until 2013 the 12th constituency of his state, before moving to the 9th constituency on January 3, 2013.

Levin was from March 4, 2010 to January 3, 2011 as the successor to the resigned Charles B. Rangel Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means , when the Obamacare health care reform was decided there; since then he has acted there as the highest-ranking member of the democratic minority group ( ranking member ) . He was also a member of two of its sub-committees. Levin dealt with trade policy and considered his successes to be the fight against privatization in the social sector and the adoption of the rescue operation for the auto industry after the global economic crisis from 2007 .

In December 2017, Levin announced that he would not stand for re- election in the 2018 election. He has announced that he will be writing and teaching at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy . His son Andy and the State Senator Steve Bieda were named as possible successors . Levin won the constituency in 2016 by 21 percentage points, Hillary Clinton in the simultaneous presidential election by 8 percentage points. In the Democratic primary election in August 2018, Andy Levin prevailed against several opposing candidates with 52.5 percent of the vote and met the Republican Candius Stearns in the main election in November 2018 . Levin's son was the favorite in this strongly democratic constituency and won the main election. He replaced his father in Congress on January 3, 2019.

Web links

• Sander M. Levin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Levin, Sander. In: Our Campaigns (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Melisa Nann Burke: Rep. Levin on retiring: 'I just thought time had come'. In: The Detroit News , December 2, 2017.
2. ^ Vincent Duffy: Andy Levin declares victory in the 9th Congressional Democratic race. In: Michigan Public Radio , August 8, 2018; 2018 Midterm Election Forecast: Michigan 9th. In: FiveThirtyEight .