Washington – John Dingell, a gruff Michigan Democrat who entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955 to finish his late father’s term and became a legislative heavyweight and longest-serving member of Congress, died on Thursday, Michigan lawmakers said. He was 92.
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Dingell served 59 years in the House before retiring in 2015 because, as he said to a Michigan business group at the time, he no longer could “live up to my own personal standard” for serving in Congress.
On Wednesday, Dingell’s wife, Debbie Dingell, who was elected to succeed him, said on Twitter that she skipped the State of the Union address in Washington to be with him after his health declined.
The Detroit News reported he was in hospice care after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he had decided not to treat.
A fine observer of American politics. I will miss his commentary.
Anti semite
These monster politicians keep the business in their families We need term limits .
I remember there was a senator or rep that was so old that he had and assistant with him who wheeled him in to vote, and the assistant held his hand up when it was time to vote, and he always voted party line. This is all voters fault, term limits are called don’t vote for them any more, and that is the best term limit. When a person is beyond power to represent his constituents don’t you think it is time to retire? I wonder if they would have kept voting for him, but sadly he died before next voting period.