Hastings Keith
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Hastings Keith (November 22, 1915 – July 19, 2005) was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.
Keith was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brockton High School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1938; graduate work at Harvard University in 1938; member of the faculty of the Boston University Evening College of Commerce in 1948 and 1949; in 1933 was a student in the Citizens Military Training Camps; served as battery officer in Massachusetts National Guard; during the Second World War served in the United States Army with eighteen months overseas service in Europe; graduate of the Command and General Staff School; colonel in the Army Reserve; salesman and later district manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Boston, Mass., 1946-1952; member of the Massachusetts Senate 1953-1956; partner in a general insurance firm, Brockton, Mass., 1946-1984; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was a candidate for nomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress until he withdrew from the race. He died in Brockton, Massachusetts.
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| Preceded by Donald W. Nicholson |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963 (District moved) |
Succeeded by John W. McCormack |
| Preceded by John W. McCormack |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 12th congressional district January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1973 (Retired) |
Succeeded by Gerry Studds |
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