Tom Hayden
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Hayden speaking at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, April 2016
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| Member of the California Senate from the 23rd district |
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In office 1992–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Herschel Rosenthal |
| Succeeded by | Sheila Kuehl |
| Member of the California State Assembly from the 44th district |
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In office 1982–1992 |
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| Preceded by | Mel Levine |
| Succeeded by | Bill Hoge |
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Thomas Emmet Hayden December 11, 1939 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | October 23, 2016 (aged 76) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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| Children | Troy Garity, Liam Hayden |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
 Tom Hayden with his then-wife, Jane Fonda, and their son, Troy, Santa Monica, California, 1976. |
Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician, who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California. Known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayden was the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity.
Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan, to parents of Irish ancestry, Genevieve Isabelle (née Garity) and John Francis Hayden. He graduated from Dondero High School in Royal Oak, Michigan, class of 1956. He later attended the University of Michigan, where he was editor of the Michigan Daily and, disenchanted by the anti-radicalism of existing groups like the National Student Association, was one of the initiators of the influential leftist student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1961, Hayden married Sandra "Casey" Cason, a civil rights activist who worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Hayden became a "freedom rider" in the South and then served as president of SDS from 1962 to 1963.
Hayden drafted SDS's manifesto, the Port Huron Statement. The objective of the Port Huron Statement was the creation of a "radically new democratic political movement" in the United States that rejected hierarchy and bureaucracy. The statement represented the emergence of a "New Left" in the United States. often working, with, but no longer part of, the remains of the American Left after concerted government efforts to destroy it. At its annual convention, the old Student League for Industrial Democracy, the "young people's division" of the "Old Left's" League for Industrial Democracy; representatives followed Hayden adopted his manifesto, and changed its name and some of its major goals.
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