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Senate Years of Service: 1977-1991 Party: Republican
HEINZ, Henry John, III, a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., October 23, 1938; graduated, Phillips Exeter
Academy 1956; graduated, Yale University 1960; received a graduate degree from
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1963; served in the United
States Air Force 1963; United States Air Force Reserve 1963-1969; faculty
member and lecturer, Graduate School of Industrial Administration,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1970-1971; business career
included positions as analyst, controllers division, and numerous positions in
the marketing division of the H.J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., plus positions
with other firms; elected as a Republican by special election, November 2,
1971, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Robert J. Corbett; reelected to the Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses
and served from November 2, 1971, to January 3, 1977; was not a candidate for
reelection to the House of Representatives, but was elected in 1976 to the
United States Senate; reelected in 1982 and again in 1988 and served from
January 3, 1977, until his death in an airplane crash over Lower Merion
Township, Pa., April 4, 1991; chairman, Republican Senatorial Campaign
Committee (Ninety-sixth and Ninety-ninth Congresses), Special Committee on
Aging (Ninety-seventh through Ninety-ninth Congresses); interment in Heinz
family mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
BibliographyHeinz, H. John, III. Foreign Takeover of U.S. Bankinga Real
Danger?
Journal of the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies 4 (Autumn
1979): 1-9; Heinz, John. U.S. Strategic Trade: An Export Control System
for the 1990s. Boulder: Westview press, 1991.
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