Patrick V. McNamara

Patrick Vincent McNamara was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1955 until his death from a stroke in Bethesda, Maryland in 1966.

Patrick McNamara was born in North Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Patrick Vincent and Mary Jane McNamara, who were Irish immigrants. The oldest of eight children, he received his early education at public schools in his native town. He attended the local high school for two and a half years before transferring to the Fore River Apprentice School in Quincy, where he learned the trade of pipe fitting. In 1916, he began working as pipe fitter and foreman at the Fore River Shipyard. He then played semiprofessional football from 1919 to 1920.

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