Congressman John Dingell joined the U.S. Army in 1944 at the age of eighteen. He rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant and received orders to take part in the first wave of a planned invasion of Japan in November of 1945. Upon leaving the Army, Dingell received both his undergraduate degree in chemistry and a law degree from Georgetown University. Dingell was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1955 and currently represents Michigan’s 12th Congressional District. He is one of only two World War II veterans still serving in Congress, and on June 7, 2013, he became the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history.