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Jul 30, 2021 · Carl Levin, former longtime U.S. senator from Michigan, died Thursday at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit at the age of 87.
Jul 29, 2021 · Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87 The longest-serving U.S. senator in Michigan history, Mr. Levin was regarded by colleagues and Washington observers as a paragon...
Jul 30, 2021 · The former taxi driver and auto-line worker, who for decades kept his faded 1953 union card in his wallet, died Thursday at 87. His family and the Levin Center at Wayne State University's law...
- 'It Was Never About Carl'
- Work Since Retirement
- Part of Political Dynasty
- Turning Arcane Issues Into Gains
- Early Life
- Political Career Launched
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who served with Levin on both the Armed Services and Investigations panels, said he stood out in the Senate because "it was never about Carl." "He never played to the cheap seats. ... He basically was respectful and always listened to what they had to say," McCaskill said. "He was never playing for ...
Since retiring, Levin had returned to Michigan and joined the firm of Honigman as senior counsel in 2015. Through the Levin Center at Wayne State, Levin worked in recent years to promote fact-based, bipartisan oversight by Congress through training workshops for hundreds of Capitol Hill staffers, said Bean, director of the center's Washington offic...
Carl Levin was part of political dynasty that included a tight kinship with his older brother by two and a half years, Sander Levin of Royal Oak, who served in the U.S. House for 36 years. The brothers were the longest-serving siblings in the history of Congress, always sitting together for the annual State of the Union address and regularly sparri...
Much of Levin's legacy involved working on often arcane issues — sometimes for many years — to notch legislative gains. He once gave the example of allowing property owners along a Michigan wilderness trail to donate land to the federal government without specific approval from Congress. "I'm proud of being willing to get into technical issues," Le...
Carl Levin was born in 1934 in Detroit, the youngest of three siblings. His father, Saul, an attorney, served on the Michigan Corrections Commission and represented migrant farmworkers. An uncle, Theodore Levin, and cousin Avern Cohn served as federal judges. His parents stressed the importance of family and community to Carl, Sander and sister Han...
He ran for the Detroit City Council, serving for eight years from 1969-77 — the last four as council president, with the aim of improving the city in the aftermath of the 1967 uprising. With the support of Mayor Coleman Young, Levin and the council took on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which owned thousands of abandoned, dil...
- Melissa Nann Burke
- Washington Correspondent
Jul 30, 2021 · Carl Levin, a liberal Democrat who rose from a prominent Detroit family to become Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator and helped set military priorities and investigate corporate behavior for...
- Todd Spangler
- Washington Correspondent
Carl Milton Levin (June 28, 1934 – July 29, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2015.
Jul 30, 2021 · Carl Levin, a six-term Democratic senator from Michigan who was an influential leader on national security and whose intellect and integrity made him one of the most widely respected lawmakers of...
