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Carl Levin
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Carl Milton Levin is an American politician and lawyer born in Detroit in 1934. A member of the Democratic Party, he has held positions as a city council member, attorney general, and United States senator. He was educated at primary school, Oakland University, Swarthmore College, and Harvard Law School. His professional work includes a focus on gun control, and he has worked in Washington, D.C.
Levin is the author of fifteen works, including *Til Gamle Cosman! Fra unge Cosmans Venner*, *Getting to the Heart of the Matter*, *Cross-Border Fraud*, *Crusader Artillery System*, and *Defense Strategy Review*. He is recognized in the Us Senators collection and has been referenced by 579 other encyclopedia articles. He speaks and writes in English and practices Judaism. His sibling is Sander Levin.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Til Gamle Cosman! Fra unge Cosmans Venner
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter
- Cross-Border Fraud
- Crusader Artillery System
- Defense Strategy Review
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1945-09-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,403x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 14,222x
- Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression
· 2017 · cited 12,499x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Robert Griffin
- Succeeded by
- Gary Peters
- Born
- Carl Milton Levin , ( 1934-06-28 ) June 28, 1934, Detroit , Michigan, U.S.
- Died
- July 29, 2021 (2021-07-29) (aged 87), Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Barbara Halpern ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1961 )
- Relatives
- Sander Levin (brother), Andy Levin (nephew)
- Education
- Swarthmore College ( BA ), Harvard University ( JD )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- Henry Ford Hospital
- Sibling
- Sander Levin
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Position held
- United States senator
- Educated at
- Harvard Law School
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- gun control
- Hair colour
- grey hair
- Image
- CarlLevin--100thCongress--.png
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- Washington, D.C.
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- Commons category
- Carl Levin
- date of birth
- 1934-06-28
- name in native language
- Carl Levin
- birth name
- Carl Milton Levin
- writing language
- English language
- hair style / hair length
- comb over
- social media followers
- 27100
- date of death
- 2021-07-29
- P10632
- Carl Levin
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Carl Milton Levin (June 28, 1934 – July 29, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2015.
Born in Detroit, Levin graduated from Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. He worked as the general counsel of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1964 to 1967, and as a special assistant attorney general for the Michigan Attorney General's Office. Levin was a member of the Detroit City Council from 1969 to 1977, serving as the council's president for the last four of those years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carl Levin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.