- Six term Democratic U.S. senator from Michigan, January 3, 1979 - January 3, 2015.
- Brother of Sander Levin.
- Uncle of Andy Levin.
- He drove a cab and worked on the assembly line at a Chrysler DeSoto plant before finishing a degree in political science at Swarthmore College. He graduated from Harvard Law School.
- Chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee for nine years.
- Father of three daughters.
- The longest serving United States Senator in Michigan history.
- In 2019, disclosed that he had been fighting lung cancer since 2015.
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