Hastings Keith

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Hastings Keith was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Keith was born in Brockton, Massachusetts on November 22, 1915 . He graduated from Brockton High School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1938. He performed graduate work at Harvard University. He was a member of the faculty of the Boston University Evening College of Commerce.

In 1933, he was a student in the Citizens Military Training Camps. He served as battery officer in Massachusetts National Guard. During the Second World War served in the United States Army with eighteen months overseas service in Europe. Keith was a graduate of the Command and General Staff School, and was a colonel in the US Army Reserve. He was a salesman and later district manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, a partner in a general insurance firm in Brockton and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1956.

He was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1973). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress, but was a candidate for nomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress until he withdrew from the race. He died in Brockton on July 19, 2005.

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• Hastings Keith at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Donald W. Nicholson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963 (District moved)	Succeeded by John W. McCormack
Preceded by John W. McCormack	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 12th congressional district January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1973 (Retired)	Succeeded by Gerry Studds