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Oil on canvas, Simmie Knox, 2006 Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives |
CONYERS, John, Jr., a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County,
Mich., May 16, 1929; attended Detroit public schools; B.A., Wayne State
University, Detroit, Mich., 1957; LL.B., Wayne State Law School, Detroit,
Mich., 1958; lawyer, private practice; National Guard, 1948-1950; United States
Army, 1950-1954; United States Army Reserves, 1954-1957; staff, United States
Representative John D. Dingell, Jr., of Michigan, 1958-1961; general counsel
for three labor locals in Detroit, 1959-1964; executive board member, Detroit,
Mich., American Civil Liberties Union, 1964 to present; executive board member,
Detroit, Mich., NAACP, 1963 to present; referee for Michigan workmens
compensation department, 1961-1963; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth
and to the twenty-two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-present); one of
the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against Alcee Lamar Hastings, judge of the United
States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; chair, Committee on
Government Operations (One Hundred First through One Hundred Third Congresses);
chair, Commitee on the Judiciary (One Hundred Tenth and One Hundred Eleventh
Congresses).
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