Robert Paul Griffin (born November 6, 1923) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.

Griffin was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended public schools in Garden City and Dearborn. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Seventy-first Infantry Division in 1943 and spent fourteen months in Europe. After the war, he graduated from Central Michigan College at Mount Pleasant in 1947. He received a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1950. He commenced the practice of law in Traverse City.

Griffin was elected as a Republican to United States House of Representatives from the 9th District for the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1957, until his resignation May 10, 1966. He was appointed on May 11, 1966, to the United States Senate to fill vacancy caused by the death of Patrick V. McNamara. He was elected November 8, 1966, to a full six-year term commencing January 3, 1967 and was reelected in 1972, serving from May 11, 1966, to January 2, 1979. He was Republican Whip 1969-1977. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1978. He was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court 1987-1994. He is a resident of Traverse City.

Bibliography

• Griffin, Robert P. "The Landrum-Griffin Act: Twelve Years of Experience in Protecting Employee Rights." Georgia Law Review 5 (summer 1971): 622-42
• Griffin, Robert P. "Rules and Procedure of the Standing Committees." In We Propose: A Modern Congress, edited by Mary McInnis, pp. 37-53. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1966.

External links

• Presentation of the Portrait of the Honorable Robert P. Griffin