Hastings Keith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1915
Place of Birth: Brockton, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 19-Jul-2005
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Hastings Keith
- Hastings Keith (November 22, 1915 – July 19, 2005) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Keith was born in Brockton, Massachusetts on November 22, 1915.
- He graduated from Brockton High School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont in 1938.
- He performed graduate work at Harvard University.
- He was a member of the faculty of the Boston University Evening College of Commerce. In 1933, he was a student in the Citizens Military Training Camps.
- He served as battery officer in Massachusetts National Guard.
- During the Second World War served in the United States Army with eighteen months overseas service in Europe.
- Keith was a graduate of the Command and General Staff School, and was a colonel in the US Army Reserve.
- He was a salesman and later district manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Boston.
- He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, a partner in a general insurance firm in Brockton and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1956. He was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1973).
- On April 19, 1974 President Nixon appointed Hastings Keith of Massachusetts as a Member of the Defense Manpower Commission.
- He was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress, but was a candidate for nomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress until he withdrew from the race.
- He died in Brockton on July 19, 2005.
- He was buried at Union Cemetery in Brockton.
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