“Michigan Senator” Philip Hart Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“Michigan Senator” Philip Hart Hand Signed 3X5 Card.  This item is authenticated By Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.
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Philip Aloysius Hart
(December 10, 1912 – December 26, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician. A
Democrat
, he served as a
United States Senator
from
Michigan
from 1959 until his death from cancer in
Washington, D.C.
in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate". The grandson of
Irish
immigrants, Philip Hart was born in
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
, to Philip Aloysius and Ann (née Clyde) Hart. His father was a
banker
who served as president of the Bryn Mawr Trust Company. He received his early education at
Waldron Academy
, and then attended
West Philadelphia Catholic High School
. Hart studied at
Georgetown University
in
Washington, D.C.
, where he was the student body president and an award-winning debater. He received a
Bachelor of Arts
degree
cum laude
from Georgetown in 1934. In 1937, he received a
Juris Doctor
degree from the
University of Michigan Law School
at
Ann Arbor
. In June 1943, Hart married
Jane "Janey" Briggs
, the daughter of
Walter and Jane Cameron Briggs
. Her father was by then a philanthropist and had owned the
Detroit Tigers
. Jane was an aviator who was the first female helicopter pilot in Michigan. She later qualified in the 1960s as one of the
Mercury 13
group. The couple met through her brother, who was Hart's roommate at Georgetown. They have four surviving sons and four daughters. Hart's namesake, Philip Jr., died as a toddler. He was buried in a family plot, followed decades later by his father nearby.