kenneth keating

Kenneth Barnard Keating (May 18, 1900 – May 5, 1975), was a US Representative and a Senator from New York. He was born in Lima, New York. He attended the public schools and graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, in 1915. He then attended the University of Rochester, where he graduated from in 1919, and from Harvard Law School in 1923. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the United States Army and during the Second World War served overseas and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948. On returning to the United States he resumed the practice of law. Keating was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress. He was reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1959) and was not a candidate for renomination in 1958. In 1958 he was elected to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1959, to January 2, 1965 and was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964. He was 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 and then served as Ambassador to Israel from August 1973, until his death in New York City in 1975. Keating, Kenneth Barnard Keating, Kenneth Barnard Keating, Kenneth Barnard Keating, Kenneth Barnard Keating, Kenneth Barnard

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