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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1965 Party: Republican
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KEATING, Kenneth Barnard, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Lima, Livingston County,
N.Y., May 18, 1900; attended the public schools; graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary,
Lima, N.Y., in 1915, from the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., in 1919, and from Harvard
Law School in 1923; admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.;
during the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Army; during the Second World
War served overseas and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948; resumed the practice of law;
elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; elected to the
United States Senate in 1958 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 2, 1965; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1964; elected to New York State Court of Appeals in 1965; served until
his resignation in 1969 to become United States Ambassador to India 1969-1972; served as
Ambassador to Israel from August 1973, until his death in New York City, May 5, 1975; interment in
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Keating, Kenneth. Government of the People. New York: World Publishing Co.,
1964; Paterson, Thomas G. The Historian as Detective: Senator Kenneth Keating, the Missiles in
Cuba, and His Mysterious Sources. Diplomatic History 11 (Winter 1987): 67-70.
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