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John David Dingell, Sr. (February 2, 1894 – September 19, 1955) was an American politician who represented Michigan's 15th congressional district from 1933 to 1955. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He is the father of longest serving member of Congress, former U.S. Representative John D. Dingell, Jr. ==Life and career== Dingell was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marie and Joseph A. Dzieglewicz, Polish immigrants. He changed his original surname, meaning, roughly, 'blacksmith', for his campaign for office with the slogan 'Ring (in) with Dingell.' He worked as a newsboy, printer and newspaperman. He had also engaged in the construction of natural gas pipelines, was a wholesale dealer in beef and pork products and an organizer and trustee of Colorado Springs Labor College. Dingell married Grace Bigler Dingell and had three children John Jr., James, and Julè. Dingell settled his family in Detroit, where he worked as a printer at the Detroit Free Press, helping to organize a union. Dingell was 5-foot-7 and suffered from asthma and tuberculosis, a disease that took the family to Colorado for a time, in hopes of a cure. There, John Jr. was born in 1926.〔Detroit Free Press, 5.16.82; Congressman John D. Dingell〕 (See Tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs). Following the 1930 U.S. Census, Michigan gained four new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1932, Dingell was elected as a Democrat from the newly formed 15th District in western Detroit. He was reelected eleven times and served until his death at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., at the age of 61. He is interred at the Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum in Southfield, Michigan. At the outset of his Congressional career, Dingell was a "New Deal stalwart."〔Flynn, John. (The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor ) (October 1945)〕 Reflecting the prevailing prejudices of the period, a memorable letter from Dingell to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 18, 1941 suggested that ten thousand Japanese-Hawaiian Americans be incarcerated in order to ensure "good behavior" from Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chronology of World War II Incarceration )〕 Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Dingell "demanded that (Husband ) Kimmel and (Walter ) Short be court-martialed."〔 A special election called to fill the remainder of Dingell's term was won by his son, John Jr., who took his father's place in Congress on December 13, 1955. In January 1995, John Dingell, Jr. became the Dean, or the longest-serving member, of the House and swore in Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Together, as of 2013, the father and his son have represented the southeastern Michigan area for 80 years. John Dingell, Jr. retired from the House of Representatives as the longest-serving member of Congress in history at 59 years and 21 days and its longest serving Dean at 20 years on January 3, 2015, and was succeeded by his wife, Debbie Dingell. A hallmark of their service has been a proposal for a national health insurance system, first introduced by John Sr. in 1933 and re-introduced since at every Congress by the father and then the son. Dingell's grandson, Christopher D. Dingell, has also taken to politics, having been elected to the Michigan State Senate in 1986. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John D. Dingell, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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