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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1971 Party: Democrat
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YOUNG, Stephen Marvin, a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born on a farm near Norwalk, Huron
County, Ohio, May 4, 1889; attended the public schools and Kenyon and Adelbert Colleges;
graduated from the law department of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911; admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Norwalk, Ohio; member, State house of
representatives 1913-1917; assistant prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County 1917-1918; served
as a private in Company F, Third Ohio Infantry, on the Mexican border in 1916, and during the First
World War served in the Field Artillery; chief assistant prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County
1919-1920; unsuccessful candidate for attorney general in 1922; unsuccessful Democratic candidate
for the gubernatorial nomination in 1930; member of the Ohio Commission on Unemployment
Insurance 1931-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses
(March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in 1936, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination; special counsel to the attorney general of
Ohio 1937-1939; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; during the Second
World War was commissioned a major in the United States Army in 1943, served in North Africa and
Italy, and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in 1946; resumed the practice of law in Cleveland,
Ohio, and Washington, D.C.; elected to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; in 1956 was defeated
for attorney general of Ohio; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in
1964 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1971; was not a candidate for reelection in
1970; was a resident of Washington, D.C., at the time of his death on December 1, 1984; interment in
Norwalk Cemetery, Norwalk, Ohio.
BibliographyYoung, Stephen M. Tales Out of Congress. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1964.
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