+ − Contact Information
Phone: (202) 225-5126
Fax: (202) 225-0072
Office Address:
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
+ − Biography
CONYERS, John, Jr., a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County,
Mich., May 16, 1929; attended Detroit public schools; B.A., Wayne State
University, Detroit, Mich., 1957; LL.B., Wayne State Law School, Detroit,
Mich., 1958; lawyer, private practice; Michigan National Guard, 1948-1950;
United States Army, 1950-1954; United States Army Reserve, 1954-1957; staff,
United States Representative John D. Dingell, Jr., of Michigan, 1958-1961;
general counsel for three labor locals in Detroit, 1959-1964; executive board
member, Detroit, Mich., American Civil Liberties Union, 1964 to present;
executive board member, Detroit, Mich., NAACP, 1963 to present; referee for
Michigan workmen’s compensation department, 1961-1963; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the twenty-six succeeding Congresses
until his resignation on December 5, 2017 (January 3, 1965-December 5, 2017); one of the managers appointed by the House of
Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Alcee
Lamar Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern
District of Florida; chairman, Committee on Government Operations (One Hundred
First through One Hundred Third Congresses); chairman, Committee on the
Judiciary (One Hundred Tenth and One Hundred Eleventh Congresses).
