Everything about Robert P Griffin totally explained
Robert Paul Griffin (born
November 6,
1923) was a
U.S. Representative and
U.S. Senator from the
state of
Michigan.
Griffin was born in
Detroit, Michigan and attended public schools in
Garden City and
Dearborn. During the
Second World War, he enlisted in the
71st Infantry Division in 1943 and spent fourteen months in
Europe. After the war, he graduated from
Central Michigan College at
Mount Pleasant in 1947. He received a law degree from the
University of Michigan Law School and was admitted to the
bar in 1950. He commenced the practice of law in
Traverse City.
Griffin was elected as a
Republican to U.S. House of Representatives from the
Michigan's 9th congressional district for the
Eighty-fifth United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from
January 3,
1957, until his resignation
May 10,
1966. He was appointed on
May 11,
1966, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Patrick V. McNamara. He was elected
November 8,
1966, to a full six-year term commencing
January 3,
1967 and was reelected in 1972, serving from
May 11,
1966, to
January 2,
1979. He was
Republican Whip 1969-1977. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1978, defeated by Democrat
Carl Levin. He was a justice of the
Michigan Supreme Court 1987-1994. His son,
Richard Allen Griffin, was a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals from 1989 to 2005, until he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 2005.
During Griffin's first election in 1966, a suburban
Detroit rock band,
Doug Brown and the Omens, released a promotional "
flexidisc" in support of his candidacy. This song, "Youth and Experience" has been included on a
garage rock compilation album called
Friday at the Hideout.
Robert Griffin is currently (
as of 2008) a resident of
Traverse City.
Bibliography
- Griffin, Robert P. "The Landrum-Griffin Act: Twelve Years of Experience in Protecting Employee Rights." Georgia Law Review 5 (summer 1971): 622-42
- Griffin, Robert P. "Rules and Procedure of the Standing Committees." In We Propose: A Modern Congress, edited by Mary McInnis, pp. 37-53. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1966.
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