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Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden
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Hayden speaking at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, April 2016
Member of the California Senate
from the 23rd district
In office
1992–2000
Preceded by Herschel Rosenthal
Succeeded by Sheila Kuehl
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 44th district
In office
1982–1992
Preceded by Mel Levine
Succeeded by Bill Hoge
Personal details
Born Thomas Emmet Hayden
(1939-12-11)December 11, 1939
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died October 23, 2016(2016-10-23) (aged 76)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Spouse(s)
Children Troy Garity, Liam Hayden
Alma mater University of Michigan
External image
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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