Howard Metzenbaum
Howard Morton Metzenbaum was an American politician who served for almost 20160years as a Democratic member of the U.S.160Senate from Ohio . He also served in the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate from 1943 to 1951.
Metzenbaum was born June 4, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, to a poor family, the son of Anna and Charles I. Metzenbaum. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and France, and his maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews. He attended Glenville High School, for whom he ran track, while also working odd jobs after hours. He graduated from Ohio State University, receiving a bachelors degree in 1939 and a law degree in 1941. During the 1940s, he practiced law in Cleveland. After initially facing discrimination due to his Jewish heritage, he found acceptance representing large labor unions, first with the Communications Workers of America and later the International Association of Machinists.
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