Dale Edward Kildee (16 September 1929-13 October 2021) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MI 7) from 3 January 1977 to 3 January 1993 (succeeding Donald Riegle and preceding Nick Smith), from MI-9 from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 2003 (succeeding Guy Vander Jagt and preceding Joe Knollenberg), and from MI-5 from 3 January 2003 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding James A. Barcia and preceding Dan Kildee).
Biography[]
Dale Edward Kildee was born in Flint, Michigan in 1929, and he worked as a Latin teacher from 1956 to 1964 before serving in the State House from 1965 to 1974, in the State Senate from 1975 to 1976, and in the US House of Representatives from 1977 to 2013. Kildee was notably a champion of Native American issues (founding the Native American Caucus). He left office in 2013, and his nephew Dan Kildee was elected to succeed him. He died in Flint in 2021 at the age of 92.