Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975
Biography:
"Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Lima, Livingston County, N.Y., May 18, 1900; attended the public schools; graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y., in 1915, from the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., in 1919, and from Harvard Law School in 1923; admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Army; during the Second World War served overseas and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; elected to the United States Senate in 1958 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 2, 1965; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964; elected to New York State Court of Appeals in 1965; served until his resignation in 1969 to become United States Ambassador to India 1969-1972; served as Ambassador to Israel from August 1973, until his death in New York City, May 5, 1975; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va."--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Building the African-American Community (Portal to Texas History)
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Oral History Collections (Butler Center for Arkansas Studies)
- Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection (University of Southern California Libraries)
- Integration Correspondence (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- James H. Karales Photographs 1953-2006 (Duke University Libraries)
- James O. Eastland Collection Photographs (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- James W. Silver Collection (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project (Golda Meir Library (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries))
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection (University of Washington's Libraries)