Carl Levin, Ally of U.S. Auto Industry in the Senate, Dies at 87

  • Michigan’s longest-serving senator championed auto industry
  • Levin opposed U.S. war in Iraq, led Armed Services panel
Senator Carl Levin in 2014.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Carl Levin, the former U.S. senator from Michigan who over a 36-year career became a dominant figure on the Armed Services Committee and a fierce champion of his state’s automobile industry, has died, his family said in a statement. He was 87.

A statement released late Thursday by Levin’s family and the Levin Center at the Wayne State University Law School did not list a cause of death.