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He attended public school and graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1915. He then attended the University Of Rochester , which he graduated from in 1919 , and from Harvard Law School in 1923 . He was admitted to the Bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the United States Army and during the Second World War served overseas and was promoted to Brigadier General in 1948 . On returning to the United States he resumed his law practice. Keating was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress . He was reelected five times ( January 3 , 1947 – January 3 , 1959 ). In 1958 he was elected to the United States Senate in an seat vacated by Republican Irving M. Ives and served from January 3 , 1959 , to January 2 , 1965 . He was defeated for reelection in 1964 by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy . Keating was elected to the New York Court Of Appeals in 1965, where he served until his resignation in 1969 to become United States Ambassador to India 1969 – 1972 . Keating then served as Ambassador to Israel from August 1973 until his death in New York City in 1975 . |
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