Sander Levin

Sander Levin
Sander Levin
Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee
	In office; March 4, 2010 – January 3, 2011
Preceded by	Pete Stark (acting)
Succeeded by	Dave Camp
Member of the; U.S. House of Representatives; from Michigan
	In office; January 3, 1983 – January 3, 2019
Preceded by	William M. Brodhead
Succeeded by	Andy Levin
Constituency	17th district (1983–1993); 12th district (1993–2013); 9th district (2013–2019)
Member of the Michigan Senate; from the 15th district
	In office; January 13, 1965 – January 13, 1971
Preceded by	John Fitzgerald
Succeeded by	Daniel Cooper
Personal details
Born	Sander Martin Levin; September 6, 1931 (age 94); Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Vicki Schlafer (m. 1958; died 2008); Pamela Cole (m. 2012);
Children	4, including Andy
Relatives	Carl Levin (brother)
Education	University of Chicago (BA); Columbia University (MA); Harvard University (LLB)
Signature
	Levin's voice Levin on U.S. government leadership in the Bosnian War.; Recorded May 6, 1993

Sander Martin "Sandy" Levin (born September 6, 1931) is an American politician. Heserved in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2019, representing Michigan's 9th congressional district. Levin, a member of the Democratic Party from Michigan. He was the former ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee;^[1] he was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee from 2010 to 2011.

His brother, Carl Levin, was the United States Senator from Michigan until retiring 2015.

Levin ran for Governor of Michigan twice, in 1970 and 1974, both times loosing to William Milliken.

In December 2017, Levin announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term, and not seek re-election in 2018.^[2]