Peter H. Dominick

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Peter H. Dominick
United States Ambassador to Switzerland
In office
April 25, 1975 – July 10, 1975
PresidentGerald Ford
Preceded byShelby Cullom Davis
Succeeded byNathaniel Davis
United States Senator
from Colorado
In office
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1975
Preceded byJohn A. Carroll
Succeeded byGary Hart
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Colorado's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963
Preceded byByron Johnson
Succeeded byDonald Brotzman
Personal details
Born
Peter Hoyt Dominick

(1915-07-07)July 7, 1915
Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedMarch 18, 1981(1981-03-18) (aged 65)
Hobe Sound, Florida, U.S.
Resting placeFairmount Cemetery, Denver
Political partyRepublican
EducationYale University (BA, LLB)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service1942–1945
Rank Captain
UnitUnited States Army Air Corps
Battles/warsWorld War II

Peter Hoyt Dominick (July 7, 1915 – March 18, 1981) was an American diplomat, politician and lawyer from

U.S. Senator from New Jersey
from 1944 to 1959.

Life and career

Born in

Denver, Colorado, where he continued to practice law, eventually becoming a founding partner of the law firm Holland & Hart.[2][3]

Colorado House of Representative

Dominick entered politics when he was elected as a Republican to the Colorado House of Representatives, where he served from 1957 to 1961.

Congress

In 1960, he made a successful run for the United States House of Representatives, defeating incumbent freshman Democrat Byron L. Johnson, and he abandoned his law career in 1961.

After a single term in the House of Representatives, Dominick was elected to the

Endangered Species Act of 1973.[8]

Senator Dominick served as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the 92nd Congress from 1971 to 1973. In a good election year for Democrats, Dominick was defeated for a third term in 1974 by Gary Hart, 57.2% to 39.5%. By then Dominick was suffering from multiple sclerosis.[9]

He also didn't help his case by saying, when asked a question about the value of U.N. Food Programs to certain countries, that Ugandans "would rather eat the people than the food", and by calling

Watergate "insignificant."[10]

Ambassador

After leaving the Senate at the end of his term in 1975, he was appointed

Ambassador to Switzerland by President Gerald Ford
, but served only briefly.

Retirement and death

He resided in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado until his death at Hobe Sound, Florida, on March 18, 1981. Senator Dominick's body was interred in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver.

Legacy

Already a competent pilot, Peter Dominick solicited service with the US Army Air Corps on December 9, 1941. Unbeknownst to his family, Dominick had kept a meticulous journal of the entirety of his service during the war. Chronicling his flying "The Hump", the journal was discovered by his children and published by youngest son, Alexander Dominick, in 2018.[11]

References

  • United States Congress. "Peter H. Dominick (id: D000409)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-01-25
  1. ^ "Statesman Peter H. Dominick dead at 65". UPI. UPI. 19 March 1981. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. ^ Smith, J.Y. (20 March 1981). "Peter H. Dominick Dies, Served 2 Terms in Senate". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Statesman Peter H. Dominick dead at 65". UPI. UPI. 19 March 1981. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  4. ^ "TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN SALE OR RENTAL OF HOUSING, AND TO PROHIBIT RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON EXERCISING HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES".
  5. ^ "HR. 7152. PASSAGE".
  6. ^ "TO PASS S. 1564, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965".
  7. ^ "CONFIRMATION OF NOMINATION OF THURGOOD MARSHALL, THE FIRST NEGRO APPOINTED TO THE SUPREME COURT". GovTrack.us.
  8. ^ Lacey, Hank (29 March 2021). "Colorado's Republican Civil Rights Icon" (print). Vol. 19, no. 13. Circuit Media. Law Week Colorado. p. 19. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  9. ^ Treaster, Joseph (20 March 1981). "Peter H. Dominick is Dead at 65; 2-Term Senator from Colorado". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  10. ^ "The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search".
  11. ^ Dominick, Alexander S. Flying the Hump, The War Journal of Peter H. Dominick. Green Bay, WI: M&B Global Solutions Inc., 2018. Print

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Colorado's 2nd congressional district

1961–1963 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by
Daniel I.J. Thornton
Class 3)
1962, 1968, 1974
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Dick Poff, Al Quie, Charlotte Reid, Hugh Scott, Bill Steiger, John Tower
 		Vacant
Title next held by
John McCormack, Patsy Mink, Ed Muskie, Bill Proxmire
Preceded by Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
1971–1973 		Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by
Floyd K. Haskell
 		Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Switzerland

1975 		Succeeded by
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