Gilbert DiNello, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1935
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date of Death: 17-Dec-1996
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Gilbert DiNello
- Gilbert DiNello was a member of both houses of the Michigan Legislature between 1979 and 1994. Born in 1935, DiNello earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Detroit and began a career in real estate.
- Beginning his political career as a precinct delegate, DiNello was elected to the state House in 1972 where he served three terms and was known as a suburban Detroit conservative Democrat.
- In 1978, he was elected to the Senate.He was known as a staunch opponent of any tax increase, even questioning the constitutionality of the state's so-called Headlee Amendment on the basis that it allowed for annual increases in property assessments.
- DiNello was the only Democrat in the Senate who refused to support then-Governor James Blanchard's proposed income tax hike in 1983.
- The move caused then-Senate Majority Leader John Engler to appoint DiNello to a committee chairmanship which effectively banished him from the Democratic caucus.
- He officially switched to the Republican Party in 1992.
- DiNello was also opposed to most legislation specifically pertaining to Detroit, to the point of being accused of being a racist by a fellow senator on the Senate floor.
- He stood for re-election in 1994 as a Republican in the newly-drawn 11th District and lost to Ken DeBeaussaert.DiNello ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in the 10th congressional district in 1996.
- He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Eagles, and the Lions.DiNello suffered a heart attack at the Somerset Collection in Troy and was pronounced dead on arrival at Beaumont Hospital.
- He was 61.
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