page_title: 1965 in Michigan
section_title: Federal office holders
hierarchical_section_title: 1965 in Michigan / Office holders / Federal office holders
caption_attribution_description: English: Patrick Vincent McNamara Source: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
context_page_description: Events from the year 1965 in Michigan.
  The Detroit Free Press and United Press International each selected lists of the top stories of 1965 in Michigan. Those stories included:
  The April 11 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak that struck across the Midwest causing 18 deaths in southern Michigan from Grand Rapids to Milan;
  The March 25 murder of Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist from Detroit, by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama;
  The boom in 1965 automobile production, reaching a record high of 11,111,000 vehicles, including 9,331,000 passenger cars;
  The May 7 sinking of the SS Cedarville in the Straits of Mackinac after it crashed in the fog with another ship, resulting in the death of 10 crew members;
  The November 2 Detroit election in which Jerome Cavanagh was re-elected as mayor by a two-to-one margin and Nicholas Hood was elected to become the second African-American Councilman in Detroit history;
  The political struggle between Republican Gov. George W. Romney and a Michigan Legislature controlled by Democrats;
context_section_description: U.S. Senator from Michigan: Patrick V. McNamara (Democrat)
  U.S. Senator from Michigan: Philip Hart (Democrat)
  House District 1: John Conyers (Democrat)
  House District 2: Weston E. Vivian (Democrat)
  House District 3: Paul H. Todd Jr. (Democrat)
  House District 4: J. Edward Hutchinson (Republican)
  House District 5: Gerald Ford (Republican)
  House District 6: Charles E. Chamberlain (Republican)
  House District 7: John C. Mackie (Democrat)
  House District 8: R. James Harvey (Republican)
  House District 9: Robert P. Griffin (Republican)
  House District 10: Elford Albin Cederberg (Republican)
  House District 11: Raymond F. Clevenger (Democrat)
  House District 12: James G. O'Hara (Democrat)
  House District 13: Charles Diggs (Democrat)
  House District 14: Lucien N. Nedzi (Democrat)
  House District 15: William D. Ford (Democrat)
  House District 16: John Dingell Jr. (Democrat)
  House District 17: Martha Griffiths (Democrat)
  House District 18: William Broomfield (Republican)
  House District 19: Billie S. Farnum (Democrat)
caption: Sen. McNamara
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