Michigan

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Carl Levin

Carl Levin is the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and an ex officio member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Carl Levin was born in 1934 in Detroit, where he graduated from Central High School. In 1956, he graduated with honors from Swarthmore College and graduated from Harvard University Law School in 1959. He practiced and taught law in Michigan until 1964 when he was appointed an assistant attorney general of Michigan and the first general counsel for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. He then helped establish the Detroit Public Defender's Office and led the Appellate Division of that office, which has become the State Appellate Defender's Office.

He won election to the Detroit City Council in 1969, becoming its president in 1973 by winning the most votes citywide. In 1978, he won an upset victory over the number two Republican in the U.S. Senate. He was reelected in 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002.

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Debbie Stabenow

Born and raised in Michigan, United States Senator Debbie Stabenow knows what matters to Michigan. She made history in 2000 when she became the first woman from the State of Michigan elected to the United States Senate. She was appointed this term to the Senate Finance Committee where she is playing a key role in addressing our nation’s health care, trade and tax policies. She also serves on the Senate Budget and Agriculture Committees.

Born in Gladwin, Michigan, Senator Stabenow grew up in the nearby town of Clare. She attended Michigan State University, where she received her Bachelor's (1972) and Masters (1975) degrees. She worked with youth in the public schools before running for public office.

She was elected to the Ingham County Board of Commissioners in 1974 and was the youngest person and first woman to chair the Board. She was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives where she served for twelve years and rose in leadership, becoming the first woman to preside over the House. She served in the State Senate for four years. Elected to Congress in 1996 representing Michigan’s Eighth Congressional District, she won election to the U.S. Senate four years later.

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