Hastings Keith

{{Short description|American politician (1915–2005)}} {{Use American English|date=October 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hastings Keith | image = Hastings Keith.jpg | office1 = Member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = January 3, 1959 | term_end1 = January 3, 1973 | predecessor1 = [[Donald W. Nicholson]] | successor1 = [[Gerry Studds]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district|9th district]] (1959–1963) [[Massachusetts's 12th congressional district|12th district]] (1963–1973) | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|11|22}} | birth_place = [[Brockton, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|07|19|1915|11|22}} | death_place = Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S. | resting_place = Union Cemetery Brockton, Massachusetts | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | alma_mater = [[University of Vermont]] [[Harvard University]] | spouse = | allegiance = {{flag|United States of America|1912}} | branch = [[United States Army]] [[United States Army Reserve]] | service_years = | rank = Colonel | unit = | battles = [[World War II]] | mawards = [[File:World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg|30px]] [[World War II Victory Medal (United States)|World War II Victory]] }}

'''Hastings Keith''' (November 22, 1915 – July 19, 2005) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Keith was born in [[Brockton, Massachusetts]] on November 22, 1915. His father, [[Roger Keith (politician)|Roger Keith]], was [[List of mayors of Brockton, Massachusetts|mayor of Brockton]] and a member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Roger Keith Sr., at 79, Was Legislator, Mayor |work=The Boston Globe |date=May 3, 1968}}</ref> Keith graduated from Brockton High School, [[Deerfield Academy]], and the [[University of Vermont]] 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 a battery officer in the Massachusetts [[United States National Guard|National Guard]]. During the [[Second World War]], he 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 [[The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States|Equitable Life Assurance Society]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|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 Party (United States)|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). On April 19, 1974, President Nixon appointed Hastings Keith of Massachusetts as a Member of the Defense Manpower Commission. 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. He was buried at Union Cemetery in Brockton.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 22, 2005 |title=Obituary: Hastings Keith |url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20050722/NEWS03/307229927 |newspaper=South Coast Today |location=New Bedford, MA}}</ref>

==See also== * [[1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1955–1956 Massachusetts legislature]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{CongBio|K000053}} * [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066906465;view=1up;seq=27 Official Biography] *{{cite news |last=Holley |first=Joe |date=July 22, 2005 |title=Rep. Hastings Keith; Federal Pension Critic |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102212.html |newspaper=Washington Post |location=Washington, DC}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=9 | before=[[Donald W. Nicholson]] | after= [[John W. McCormack]] | years=January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=12 | before=[[John W. McCormack]] | after= [[Gerry Studds]] | years=January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1973}} {{s-end}}

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