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Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912Template:Spaced ndashDecember 26, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington, D.C. in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate".<ref name=obituary>Template:Cite news</ref> The Hart Senate Office Building is named in his honor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and familyEdit

The grandson of Irish immigrants, Philip Hart was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Philip Aloysius and Ann (née Clyde) Hart.<ref name=yearbook>Template:Cite book</ref> His father was a banker who served as president of the Bryn Mawr Trust Company.<ref name=nytimes>Template:Cite news</ref> He received his early education at Waldron Academy, and then attended West Philadelphia Catholic High School.<ref name=westcatholic>Template:Cite news</ref>

Hart studied at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he was the student body president and an award-winning debater.<ref name=virtue>Template:Cite book</ref> He received a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Georgetown in 1934.<ref name=yearbook/> In 1937, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor.<ref name=congress>Template:Cite news</ref>

In June 1943, Hart married Jane "Janey" Briggs, the daughter of Walter and Jane Cameron Briggs. Her father was by then a philanthropist and had owned the Detroit Tigers. Jane was an aviator who was the first female helicopter pilot in Michigan. She later qualified in the 1960s as one of the Mercury 13 group. The couple met through her brother, who was Hart's roommate at Georgetown. They have four surviving sons and four daughters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hart's namesake, Philip Jr., died as a toddler. He was buried in a family plot, followed decades later by his father nearby.

Early careerEdit

Hart was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1938 and became an associate in the Detroit firm of Beaumont, Smith & Harris.<ref name=yearbook/> During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel with the 4th Infantry Division (1941–1946).<ref name=congress/> He was wounded during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on Utah Beach when shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell damaged the inside of his right arm.<ref name=virtue/> Following the war, he returned to Michigan and recovered at the Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. There he became acquainted with fellow veterans Bob Dole and Daniel Inouye, both also future U.S. senators.<ref name=virtue/> He was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal with clusters, Arrowhead device, Purple Heart, and Croix de guerre.<ref name=yearbook/>

In 1946, Hart returned to Detroit and entered the general law practice of Monaghan, Hart & Crawmer.<ref name=yearbook/> He became politically active in the Democratic Party and, from 1949 to 1951, he served as Michigan's Corporation Securities Commissioner, a political appointee position.<ref name=congress/> His duties included the approving of stock issues of corporations in the state, licensing real estate brokers and builders, and collecting real estate taxes.<ref name=yearbook/> In 1951 Hart was appointed as state director of the Office of Price Stabilization, serving for a year.<ref name=westcatholic/> For his work in that office, he was named Outstanding Federal Administrator of the Year in 1952 by the Federal Business Association.<ref name=yearbook/>

In 1952, he was appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, serving for one year.<ref name=congress/> He next served from 1953 to 1954 as legal adviser to Governor G. Mennen Williams, a former law school classmate.<ref name=westcatholic/>

In 1954, Hart ran for electoral office, elected as the 51st lieutenant governor of Michigan, on a ticket with Governor Williams. He served two terms, until 1959.<ref name=congress/> His re-election in 1956 made him the first Democrat in Michigan to serve two terms as lieutenant governor.<ref name=yearbook/>

U.S. SenateEdit

File:President John F. Kennedy with Governor John B. Swainson and Senator Philip Hart of Michigan.jpg

Hart (second from right) with Governor of Michigan John Swainson and President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1961

Hart was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in the Democratic wave election of 1958, defeating one-term incumbent Republican Charles E. Potter by a 54% to 46% margin. He was reelected by overwhelming margins in 1964 and 1970. (His 1970 opponent was former Michigan First Lady Lenore Romney.) Some conservatives in Michigan attempted to recall Hart from office for his stands on gun control and busing for racial integration, with bumper stickers reading "Recall cures Hart attacks," but the US Constitution does not authorize the recall of elected federal officials, and Hart was strongly re-elected by supporters.

Hart was the chief Senate sponsor of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act, which ended the quotas that restricted immigration from most of the world since 1924.

Hart died in office. He had announced his intention not to run for re-election in June 1976 and was diagnosed with cancer a month later.<ref name=LSSU /> The same year, the Senate voted to name its new Senate office building after him, the Hart Senate Office Building.<ref>Template:USBill, Designation of the Philip A. Hart Office Building</ref> It would have been the first federal government building named after someone still living. The vote was 99–0, with Hart abstaining. He died of melanoma a few days later, just before his term would have expired, and he would have retired. Donald W. Riegle, Jr., who had just been elected to the seat for the next term, was named to fill Hart's seat for the remaining days of the congressional session.

Hart is interred in St. Anne's Catholic Cemetery on Mackinac Island in a family plot near his namesake son, who died as a toddler.

HonorsEdit

In 1982, the Hart Senate Office Building, the third to be constructed, was officially dedicated and named for him.
Other buildings named after Hart include the Hart–Dole–Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan; the Philip A. Hart Plaza along the Detroit International Riverfront; the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Empire, Michigan; Hart Middle School in Rochester Hills, Michigan; and the Hart–Kennedy House in Lansing, the headquarters of the Michigan Democratic Party.
The Philip Hart Memorial Scholarship was established at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as a full scholarship, to be awarded to a student who exemplifies the ideals and goals of the Senator.<ref name=LSSU>LSSU Foundation – Senator Philip A. Hart Memorial Scholarship</ref>
The moot court room at Georgetown University Law Center is named in his honor.
The visitor center at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is named after Hart, who first introduced the bill in Congress to establish the park in 1961.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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