Carl Levin

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 Born in Detroit Levin graduated from Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School He worked as the general counsel of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1964 to 1967 and as a special assistant attorney general for the Michigan Attorney Generals Office Levin was a member of the Detroit City Council from 1969 to 1977 serving as the councils president for the last four of those years