More proof that politicians never keep their promises… John Dingell was the longest-serving Congressman in US political history, representing the state of Michigan from 1955 to 2015. He was the final serving Congressman elected in the 1950s, the last to have been a Congressman while John F. Kennedy was president, and joint-last Congressman to have served in World War 2. His staying power could be attributed to his old-fashioned social democratic stance: pro-labour rights, pro-environment, moderate on abortion and to the right on guns. He was replaced in Congress by his wife, Deborah, who had the very short-lived job of transcribing his tweets after Dingell was admitted to hospice with metastatic prostate cancer in early February 2019.
John Dingell
July 8, 1926 – February 7, 2019
Died aged 92 (two picks)