Information AboutLee Metcalf |
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Lee Warren Metcalf was an American politician of the Democratic Party and was a United States Representative , and a United States Senator ( 1961 until 1978 ) from Montana ; born in Stevensville, Montana January 28 , 1911 . He graduated from Stanford University in 1936 and received a law degree from Montana State University Law School; admitted to the Montana bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of law; member, State house of representatives 1937 ; assistant Attorney General of Montana 1937 - 1941 . In December 1942 enlisted in the Army, attended officers’ training school, was commissioned, went overseas in 1944 , and participated in the Normandy Invasion and the Battle Of The Bulge . After V-E Day he was concerned with the care and repatriation of displaced persons; helped in drafting ordinances for the first free local elections in Germany and supervised the free elections in Bavaria ; discharged from the Army as a First Lieutenant in April 1946 ; associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court 1946 - 1952 ; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress ; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses ( January 3 , 1953 - January 3 , 1961 ); was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1960 to the United States Senate ; reelected in 1966 and 1972 and served from January 3 , 1961 , until his death; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Congressional Operations (Ninety-third and Ninety-fifth Congresses); died in Helena, Montana , January 12 , 1978 ; cremated; ashes scattered in one of his favorite areas in the wilderness of the State of Montana. |
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