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Henry John Heinz III (
October 23,
1938 –
April 4,
1991) was an
American politician from
Pennsylvania, a
Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives (
1971–
1977) and the
United States Senate (
1977–
1991).
Early life
Born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Heinz was the son of
H. J. Heinz II (heir to the
H. J. Heinz Company) and Joan Diehl. His parents divorced, and Heinz moved to
San Francisco,
California with his mother and his stepfather,
U.S. Navy Captain Clayton C. McCauley. After graduating from the Town School,
Phillips Exeter Academy in
1956 and
Yale University in
1960, he earned an
MBA from
Harvard Business School in
1963. In
1963, Heinz
enlisted in the
United States Air Force and served on active duty from June to December of that year at
Lackland Air Force Base. He then served with the 911th Troop Carrier Group, based at the
Greater Pittsburgh Airport, as a member of the
United States Air Force Reserve; he was
honorably discharged in
1969 with the rank of
staff sergeant.
Academic and Business Activities
From
1970 to
1971, Heinz was a member of the faculty at the
Graduate School of Industrial Administration at
Carnegie Mellon University. His career as a businessman included positions as an analyst in the
controller's division, and numerous positions in the
marketing division of the H. J. Heinz Company.
Public Service
House of Representatives
In
1971, he was elected by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Robert J. Corbett during the
92nd Congress. He was reelected to the
93rd and
94th Congresses. Heinz was elected to the Senate in
1976 and reelected in
1982 and
1988.
Senate
Heinz's initial election to the Senate was aided by the
U.S. Supreme Court's decision,
Buckley v. Valeo, issued mid-campaign, which invalidated the Congressionally-placed restrictions on the spending of one's own personal funds in a political campaign. (See
campaign finance.) Heinz spent millions of dollars attacking Democratic nominee
William J. Green, a seven term congressman from
Philadelphia and future
mayor of that city, as being "soft" on military issues because he'd voted against various
Defense appropriation bills in the
Vietnam War era.
Heinz's Senate work was focused on
retirement and the
elderly,
health care,
international trade,
finance and
banking,
environmental issues,
human development and
education. He was chairman of the
National Republican Senatorial Committee (
96th and
99th Congresses) and a member of the
Senate Special Committee on Aging (
97th through
99th Congresses).
Death
Heinz and six other people were killed on
April 4,
1991, when a
Bell 412 helicopter collided with the Senator's
Piper Aerostar plane over Merion Elementary School in
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. All aboard the two aircraft and two first-grade girls playing outside the school were killed. The helicopter had been dispatched to check out a problem with the landing gear of Heinz's plane. While moving in for a closer look, the helicopter's
rotor blades struck the bottom of the plane, causing both aircraft to lose control and crash.
Senator Heinz was interred in the Heinz family
mausoleum in
Homewood Cemetery, located in the
Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
Personal life
Teresa Simões-Ferreira married Heinz on
5 February 1966 in
Pittsburgh. Nine months later, their son,
Henry IV, was born, followed by sons
André and
Christopher.
Honors
The
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum was renamed following his death. The 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) refuge includes the largest remaining freshwater tidal
marsh in Pennsylvania as well as other habitats that are home to a variety of plants and animals native to Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Several institutions bear his name, including:
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