Stephen M. Young
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United States Senator from Ohio |
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In office January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1971 |
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| Preceded by | John W. Bricker |
| Succeeded by | Robert Taft, Jr. |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's at-large district |
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In office March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937 |
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| Preceded by | District established |
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Harold G. Mosier John McSweeney |
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In office January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943 |
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| Preceded by |
George H. Bender L. L. Marshall |
| Succeeded by | George H. Bender |
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In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951 |
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| Preceded by | George H. Bender |
| Succeeded by | George H. Bender |
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Stephen Marvin Young May 4, 1889 Norwalk, Ohio |
| Died | December 1, 1984 (aged 95) Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
Stephen Marvin Young (May 4, 1889 – December 1, 1984) was an American politician of the Democratic Party from Ohio. He was a United States Senator from Ohio from 1959 until 1971.
Young was born on May 4, 1889 in Norwalk, Ohio, the fourth and youngest child of Stephen Marvin Young and Isabella Margaret Wagner. He and his father (who was a judge in Huron County) were namesakes of his great-grandfather, Stephen Marvin (1797-1868), the first pioneer of Shelby, Ohio.
Young received a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio in 1911.
Young served as an Ohio state representative from 1913 to 1917, and as an assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, from 1917 to 1918. He then served in the U.S. Army during World War I. In 1919, he returned to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office.
In 1922, Young ran for the office of Ohio attorney general and lost. In 1930, he ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio but lost in the primary to fellow Democrat George White, who went on to win the governorship.
From 1931 to 1932, Young served on the Ohio Commission on Unemployment Insurance. In 1932, Young was elected to one of Ohio's two at-large seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected to his seat in 1934. In 1936, instead of running for re-election to the House, Young ran for governor of Ohio again. This time, he lost the Democratic nomination to incumbent Gov. Martin Davey, George White's successor. From 1937 to 1939, Young served as special counsel to the attorney general of Ohio.
In 1938, Young again sought election to an at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but he and fellow Democrat John McSweeney were defeated by Republicans George H. Bender and L. L. Marshall. In 1940, Young was again elected to one of the at-large House seats; Bender took the other. Losing that race were Marshall and Democrat Francis W. Durbin. In 1942, Ohio was reduced to one at-large House seat, and Young failed in his re-election bid, losing to Bender.
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