Michigan's 17th congressional district

Michigan's 17th congressional district is an obsolete United States

United States

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Congressional district

A congressional district is “a geographical division of a state from which one member of the House of Representatives is elected.”Congressional Districts are made up of three main components, a representative, constituents, and the specific land area that both the representative and the...

in Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. The first Representative to Congress elected from the 17th district, George Anthony Dondero

George Anthony Dondero

George A. Dondero was a Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Michigan.- Biography :Dondero was born on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan, which has since become part of Detroit...

, took office in 1933, after reapportionment

United States congressional apportionment

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due to the 1930 census

United States Census, 1930

The Fifteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau one month from April 1, 1930, determined the resident population of the United States to be 122,775,046, an increase of 13.7 percent over the 106,021,537 persons enumerated during the 1920 Census.-Census questions:The 1930 Census...

. The district was dissolved following the 1990 census

United States Census, 1990

The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 Census....

. The last Representative elected from the district, Sander M. Levin

Sander M. Levin

Sander Martin Levin, generally known as Sandy Levin, is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1983, and the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee...

, was subsequently elected from the 12th district

Michigan's 12th congressional district

Michigan's 12th congressional district is a United States Congressional District located in Detroit's inner suburbs to the north, along the Interstate 696 corridor in Macomb and Oakland counties, as well as a portion of Macomb north of the corridor....

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Congress	Notes
District created		March 4, 1933
George Anthony Dondero George Anthony Dondero George A. Dondero was a Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Michigan.- Biography :Dondero was born on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan, which has since become part of Detroit...	Republican	March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1953	73rd-82nd	Redistricted to the
Charles G. Oakman Charles G. Oakman Charles Gibb Oakman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Oakman was born in Detroit, Michigan; attended the public schools and Wayne State University. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1926 and engaged in the real estate and transportation business 1927-1940...	Republican	January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1955	83rd
Martha Griffiths Martha Griffiths Martha Wright Griffiths was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means and the first woman elected to the United States Congress from Michigan as...	Democratic	January 3, 1955 - December 31, 1974	84th-93rd	Resigned
Vacant		December 31, 1974 – January 3, 1975	93rd 93rd United States Congress The Ninety-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1975, during the end of Richard...
William M. Brodhead William M. Brodhead William McNulty Brodhead is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Brodhead was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended elementary and secondary schools in Cleveland. He received a B.A. from Wayne State University in Detroit, in 1965 and a J.D...	Democratic	January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1983	94th-97th
Sander M. Levin Sander M. Levin Sander Martin Levin, generally known as Sandy Levin, is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1983, and the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee...	Democratic	January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1993	98th-102nd	Redistricted to the
District eliminated		January 3, 1993

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