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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein was born on January 16, 1929 in Newark, New Jersey, United States and grew up in Westchester County, New York. His father, Gabriel Abraham Lowenstein, a doctor, taught at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and then gave up medicine to run a successful restaurant business. His mother was Augusta Goldberg.
Lowenstein graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City in 1945 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1949 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he had been active in the nascent civil rights movement. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1954.
Lowenstein went to work in Washington, D. C. , as a legislative assistant to liberal Senator Frank P. Graham of North Carolina. In the early 1950's he presided over the National Student Association, and in the 1952 presidential campaign Lowenstein chaired the national organization of Students for Stevenson. Later that year he began working for Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations. In 1954 as a young lawyer he actively championed the cause of Namibian independence. After failing to win a congressional seat from Manhattan in 1960, Lowenstein taught law and politics at Stanford University from 1961 to 1962, where he also served as an assistant dean of men, and at the University of North Carolina from 1963 to 1964.
In 1963 he mobilized students from Yale and Stanford to work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in its efforts to register African Americans to vote and to hold a "freedom election" in Mississippi. He then recruited college students for the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and sought to play a leading role in the voter-registration campaign. Lowenstein's attempts to move the Freedom Summer headquarters from Mississippi to New York, however, and to prevent SNCC from receiving legal assistance from the leftist National Lawyers Guild alienated SNCC militants. When Lowenstein supported President Lyndon B. Johnson's compromise proposal in 1964 on the seating of the Mississippi delegation at the Democratic National Convention which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party opposed as a sell-out, the rift between SNCC and Lowenstein and other white liberals became an unbridgeable gulf.
In the fall of 1967, as vice-chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, Lowenstein planned a revolt against Johnson's renomination. Recruiting converts on college campuses, in the peace movement, and among dissident Democrats, he built a movement to "dump Johnson. " After senators Robert Kennedy of New York and George McGovern of South Dakota rejected his plans to run against the president in the Democratic primaries, Lowenstein found his candidate in Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota and engineered the challenger's impressive showing in the 1968 New Hampshire primary election. Lowenstein attracted large numbers of liberals to the "peace" candidacy of McCarthy, and Johnson ultimately withdrew from the race.
In November 1968, after moving to Long Beach on Long Island, Lowenstein was elected to Congress from New York's Fifth District in Nassau County. He served one term before being defeated for reelection and then failed to win in four subsequent attempts. In 1977 he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to be the American representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights; later that year he became the United States alternative representative for United Nations Special Political Affairs.
Returning to private law practice with Layton and Sherman in New York in 1978, Lowenstein continued to travel widely on behalf of peace and justice, particularly to Africa, where he helped mediate a settlement in Rhodesia. Dennis Sweeny, formerly a close friend of Lowenstein's at Stanford and his protégé in the civil rights movement, shot him to death in his Rockefeller Center law office.
Lowenstein became prominent for his service in U. S legislature and his political activity in civil rights movement and the antiwar protests. He helped found the Mississippi Freedom Vote, which challenged the white power structure of the state's traditional Democratic Party. In 1980, Lowenstein received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award is given out annually by Jefferson Awards Foundation.
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Lowenstein supported the civil rights movement and opposed the Vietnam War.
Quotes from others about the person
"From the sit-ins to the campuses to the halls of Congress, Al Lowenstein was a passionate fighter for a more humane, more democratic world. " - President Carter
On November 25, 1966, Lowenstein married Jennifer Lyman. They had three children and were later divorced.
