- Lucien N. Nedzi
Lucien Norbert Nedzi (born
May 28 ,1925 ) is a former Democratic member of theUnited States House of Representatives from the State ofMichigan .Nedzi was born in
Hamtramck, Michigan , a city virtually surrounded by Detroit. He graduated from theUniversity of Michigan in 1943. In 1949, he attended theUniversity of Detroit School of Law. He earned a J.D. from theUniversity of Michigan Law School in 1951, and was admitted to the Michigan bar in January 1952.From 1944 to 1946, he served in the
United States Army duringWorld War II as an infantryman in thePhilippines , and in the Corps of Engineers inJapan . From 1946 to 1953, he was in the activeUnited States Army Reserve , during which time he served in theKorean War .Nedzi was elected as a Democrat from
Michigan's 1st congressional district to the87th United States Congress in a special election in 1961 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofUnited States Representative Thaddeus M. Machrowicz . He was re-elected in the 1962 election and two years later he was elected from the 14th district and every two years after that until he declined to seek re-election in the 1980 election. In all, he served fromNovember 7 ,1961 toJanuary 3 ,1981 .Nedzi chaired the House Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Nedzi Committee, from February 1975 until he resigned in June; the successor was the
Pike Committee . In addition, Nedzi chaired the Joint Committee on the Library from 1973 to 1979 and the Committee on House Administration from 1979 to 1981.Nedzi currently lives in
McLean, Virginia .External links
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000019 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
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