|
Senate Years of Service: 1959-1965 Party: Republican
KEATING, Kenneth Barnard, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Lima,
Livingston County, N.Y., May 18, 1900; attended the public schools; graduated
from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y., in 1915, from the University of
Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., in 1919, and from Harvard Law School in 1923;
admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.; during
the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Army; during the
Second World War served overseas and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948;
resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress;
reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; elected to the United States
Senate in 1958 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1965;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964; elected to New York State Court
of Appeals in 1965; served until his resignation in 1969 to become United
States Ambassador to India 1969-1972; served as Ambassador to Israel from
August 1973, until his death in New York City, May 5, 1975; interment in
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Keating, Kenneth.
Government of the People. New York: World Publishing Co.,
1964; Paterson, Thomas G. The Historian as Detective: Senator Kenneth Keating,
the Missiles in Cuba, and His Mysterious Sources.
Diplomatic History 11 (Winter 1987): 67-70.
|