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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Peter Hoyt Dominick
|image=Peter Dominick of CO.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Colorado]]
|term start=January 3, 1963
|term_end=January 3, 1975
|preceded=John Albert Carroll
|succeeded=[[Gary Hart]]
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] <br>for Colorado's 2nd congressional district
|term_start2=January 3, 1961
|term_end2=January 3, 1963
|preceded2=Byron L. Johnson
|successor2=Donald G. Brotzman
|office3=Colorado State Representative from [[Denver]]
|term_start3=1957
|term_end3=1961
|office4=U.S. Ambassador to [[Switzerland]] and [[Lieichtenstein]]
|president4=[[Gerald Ford]]
|term_start4 =April 25, 1975
|term_end4=July 10, 1975
|preceded4=Shelby Cullom Davis
|succeeded4=Nathaniel Davis
|birth_date=July 7, 1915
|birth_place=Stamford, [[Connecticut]]
|death_date=March 18, 1981 (aged 65)
|death_place=Hobe Sound, [[Florida]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|alma_mater=[[Yale University]] (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
|residence=Cherry Hills Village in Colorado
|branch=[[United States]]
|unit=[[United States Army]] Air Corps
|serviceyears=1942–1945
|rank=[[Captain]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
}}
'''Peter Hoyt Dominick''' (July 7, 1915 – March 18, 1981) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Senator]] for his adopted state of [[Colorado]], with service for two terms from 1963 to 1974. He lost his bid for a third term to later [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] presidential candidate [[Gary Hart]], who in 1972 had managed the campaign to elect [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]] in the unsuccessful race against [[Richard M. Nixon]].
Dominick was born in Stamford, [[Connecticut]], forty miles northeast of [[New York City]]. His maternal uncle, Howard Alexander Smith, was a U.S. Senator for [[New Jersey]] from 1944 to 1959. He graduated in 1933 from St. Mark's School in [[Massachusetts]]. He then graduated in 1937 from [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven]], Connecticut, and then Yale Law School in 1940. For the next two years, he practiced law in [[New York City]].<ref name=statesman>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/19/Statesman-Peter-H-Dominick-dead-at-65/3900353826000/ |title=
Statesman Peter H. Dominick dead at 65|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=March 19, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
In 1942, Dominick joined the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner of the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], as an aviation cadet]] at the outset of America's entry into [[World War II]]. He served until his release as a captain in 1945. Years after his death, his youngest son, Alexander S. Dominick found a journal of the entirety of his war-time service during the war. He flew over "the Hump" in the [[Himalayas]].<ref>Alexander S. Dominick, ''Flying the Hump: The War Journal of Peter H. Dominick (Green Bay,[[Wiconsin]]: M&B Global Solutions, Inc., 2018).</ref>
In 1946, he resumed his legal practice in New York City but soon moved to the capital city of [[Denver]], Colorado, at which he became a founding partner of the law firm Holland & Hart, founded by Joseph Holland and Steve Hart, no relation to Dominick's last political opponent, Gary Hart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/20/peter-h-dominick-dies-served-2-terms-in-senate/f9d8525f-d30d-4110-8ac0-cca04eea950e/|author=J. Y. Smith|date=March 20, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=March 20, 1981}}</ref><ref name=statesman/>
In 1956, Dominick was elected as a state representative, a post he filled from 1957 to 1961. In 1960, with Richard Nixon carrying Colorado over [[John F. Kennedy]], Dominick made a successful run for the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He defeated freshman [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Byron Lindberg Johnson (1917-2000) and abandoned his law career in 1961. After a single term in the House of Representatives, Dominick was elected to the [[United States Senate]], defeating one-term incumbent Democrat John Albert Carroll (1901-1983), 53.6 to 45.6 percent. He was reelected in 1968 over Democrat Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols (1914-1997), a former Colorado [[governor]. 58.6 to 41.5 percent. Dominick voted in favor of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], the confirmation of [[Thurgood Marshall]] as the first [[African American]] nominated to the [[United States Supreme Court]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1968/s346|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN SALE OR RENTAL OF HOUSING, AND TO PROHIBIT RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON EXERCISING HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES|publisher=govtrack}}</ref>
A strong environmentalist, Dominick advocated for the Wilderness Act of 1964, the [[Clean Air Act]] of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, and the [[Endangered Species Act]] of 1973.<ref>{{cite web|author=Hank Lacey|url=title=Colorado's Republican Civil Rights Icon|url=https://lawweekcolorado.com/|accessdate=July 15, 2021|publisher=''Law Week Colorado'' in Circuit Media |issue=13|date=March 29, 2021|volume=19|page=19|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
Dominick was from 1971 to 1972 the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He lost his bid for a third term to Gary Hart, 57.2 to 39.5 percent. By then Dominick was suffering from [[multiple sclerosis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/20/obituaries/peter-h-dominick-is-dead-at-65-2-term-senator-from-coloado.htm|title=Peter H. Dominick is dead at 65; 2-term senator from Colorado|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=March 20, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
After leaving the Senate at the end of his term in 1975, he was appointed as United States Ambassador to [[Switzerland]] by U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]], but served less than three months. He died at Hobe Sound, [[Florida]] and is interred at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.<ref>Peter Hoyt Dominick (1915-1981) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 15, 2021}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dominick, Peter}}
[[Category:Colorado]]
[[Category:Connecticut]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
|name=Peter Hoyt Dominick
|image=Peter Dominick of CO.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Colorado]]
|term start=January 3, 1963
|term_end=January 3, 1975
|preceded=John Albert Carroll
|succeeded=[[Gary Hart]]
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] <br>for Colorado's 2nd congressional district
|term_start2=January 3, 1961
|term_end2=January 3, 1963
|preceded2=Byron L. Johnson
|successor2=Donald G. Brotzman
|office3=Colorado State Representative from [[Denver]]
|term_start3=1957
|term_end3=1961
|office4=U.S. Ambassador to [[Switzerland]] and [[Lieichtenstein]]
|president4=[[Gerald Ford]]
|term_start4 =April 25, 1975
|term_end4=July 10, 1975
|preceded4=Shelby Cullom Davis
|succeeded4=Nathaniel Davis
|birth_date=July 7, 1915
|birth_place=Stamford, [[Connecticut]]
|death_date=March 18, 1981 (aged 65)
|death_place=Hobe Sound, [[Florida]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|alma_mater=[[Yale University]] (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
|residence=Cherry Hills Village in Colorado
|branch=[[United States]]
|unit=[[United States Army]] Air Corps
|serviceyears=1942–1945
|rank=[[Captain]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
}}
'''Peter Hoyt Dominick''' (July 7, 1915 – March 18, 1981) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Senator]] for his adopted state of [[Colorado]], with service for two terms from 1963 to 1974. He lost his bid for a third term to later [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] presidential candidate [[Gary Hart]], who in 1972 had managed the campaign to elect [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]] in the unsuccessful race against [[Richard M. Nixon]].
Dominick was born in Stamford, [[Connecticut]], forty miles northeast of [[New York City]]. His maternal uncle, Howard Alexander Smith, was a U.S. Senator for [[New Jersey]] from 1944 to 1959. He graduated in 1933 from St. Mark's School in [[Massachusetts]]. He then graduated in 1937 from [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven]], Connecticut, and then Yale Law School in 1940. For the next two years, he practiced law in [[New York City]].<ref name=statesman>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/19/Statesman-Peter-H-Dominick-dead-at-65/3900353826000/ |title=
Statesman Peter H. Dominick dead at 65|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=March 19, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
In 1942, Dominick joined the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner of the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], as an aviation cadet]] at the outset of America's entry into [[World War II]]. He served until his release as a captain in 1945. Years after his death, his youngest son, Alexander S. Dominick found a journal of the entirety of his war-time service during the war. He flew over "the Hump" in the [[Himalayas]].<ref>Alexander S. Dominick, ''Flying the Hump: The War Journal of Peter H. Dominick (Green Bay,[[Wiconsin]]: M&B Global Solutions, Inc., 2018).</ref>
In 1946, he resumed his legal practice in New York City but soon moved to the capital city of [[Denver]], Colorado, at which he became a founding partner of the law firm Holland & Hart, founded by Joseph Holland and Steve Hart, no relation to Dominick's last political opponent, Gary Hart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/20/peter-h-dominick-dies-served-2-terms-in-senate/f9d8525f-d30d-4110-8ac0-cca04eea950e/|author=J. Y. Smith|date=March 20, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021|publisher=''[[The Washington Post]]''|date=March 20, 1981}}</ref><ref name=statesman/>
In 1956, Dominick was elected as a state representative, a post he filled from 1957 to 1961. In 1960, with Richard Nixon carrying Colorado over [[John F. Kennedy]], Dominick made a successful run for the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He defeated freshman [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Byron Lindberg Johnson (1917-2000) and abandoned his law career in 1961. After a single term in the House of Representatives, Dominick was elected to the [[United States Senate]], defeating one-term incumbent Democrat John Albert Carroll (1901-1983), 53.6 to 45.6 percent. He was reelected in 1968 over Democrat Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols (1914-1997), a former Colorado [[governor]. 58.6 to 41.5 percent. Dominick voted in favor of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], the confirmation of [[Thurgood Marshall]] as the first [[African American]] nominated to the [[United States Supreme Court]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1968/s346|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN SALE OR RENTAL OF HOUSING, AND TO PROHIBIT RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON EXERCISING HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES|publisher=govtrack}}</ref>
A strong environmentalist, Dominick advocated for the Wilderness Act of 1964, the [[Clean Air Act]] of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, and the [[Endangered Species Act]] of 1973.<ref>{{cite web|author=Hank Lacey|url=title=Colorado's Republican Civil Rights Icon|url=https://lawweekcolorado.com/|accessdate=July 15, 2021|publisher=''Law Week Colorado'' in Circuit Media |issue=13|date=March 29, 2021|volume=19|page=19|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
Dominick was from 1971 to 1972 the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He lost his bid for a third term to Gary Hart, 57.2 to 39.5 percent. By then Dominick was suffering from [[multiple sclerosis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/20/obituaries/peter-h-dominick-is-dead-at-65-2-term-senator-from-coloado.htm|title=Peter H. Dominick is dead at 65; 2-term senator from Colorado|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=March 20, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
After leaving the Senate at the end of his term in 1975, he was appointed as United States Ambassador to [[Switzerland]] by U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]], but served less than three months. He died at Hobe Sound, [[Florida]] and is interred at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.<ref>Peter Hoyt Dominick (1915-1981) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 15, 2021}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dominick, Peter}}
[[Category:Colorado]]
[[Category:Connecticut]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army]]