Lucien Nedzi

Nedzi was born to Polish immigrants Aleksander Nedzi and Stephania (Wojszko) Nedzi in the town of Hamtramck, Michigan, an exclave of Detroit. He graduated from Hamtramck High School, and enrolled in the University of Michigan, graduating in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. ==Military service==

From 1944 to 1946, he served in the United States Army during World War II as an infantryman in the Philippines, and in the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Occupied Japan. From 1946 to 1953, he was in the active United States Army Reserve, during which time he served in the Korean War. ==Politics==

Nedzi served as the public administrator of Wayne County, Michigan, from 1955 to 1961. Congress Nedzi was elected as a U.S. representative from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the 87th United States Congress in a special election in 1961 to fill the vacancy left by resigning U.S. representative Thaddeus M. Machrowicz. He was re-elected in the 1962 election and two years later he was elected from Michigan's 14th congressional district and every two years after that until he declined to seek re-election in the 1980 election. In all, he served from November 7, 1961, to January 3, 1981. Nedzi chaired the House Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Nedzi Committee, from February 1975 until he controversially resigned in June. His resignation came after The New York Times reported that Nedzi was aware of the Central Intelligence Agency being possibly involved in "assassination plans and domestic law violations", but did not notify the United States House of Representatives or open an investigation into the matter. In addition, Nedzi chaired the United States Congressional Joint Committee on the Library from 1973 to 1979 and the United States House Committee on House Administration from 1979 to 1981. ==Personal life and death==

Nedzi married the former Margaret Kathleen "Peggy" Garvey on January 28, 1952 in Laredo, Texas, after they met on a blind date during her dietetic internship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Together, they had five children and nine grandchildren. For the rest of their marriage, they lived in McLean, Virginia. Peggy Nedzi died on November 1, 2020 at age 95 while recovering from rheumatoid vasculitis. Nedzi died in Reston, Virginia on June 9, 2025, one week and five days after his 100th birthday. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. == References ==