found: New York times WWW site, Mar. 18, 2008(in obituary published Mar. 14: Howard M. Metzenbaum; b. Howard Morton Metzenbaum, June 4, 1917, Cleveland; d. Wednesday [Mar. 12, 2008], Aventura, Fla., aged 90; for nearly two decades as a Democratic senator from Ohio fought conservatives and big business with such effectiveness and ferocity that he became known as "the last angry liberal")
found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, September 10, 2013:(Metzenbaum, Howard Morton, Senate years of service: 1974-1974; 1976-1995; a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, June 4, 1917; graduated, Ohio State University, Columbus 1939; graduated, Ohio State University School of Law 1941; admitted to the Ohio bar in 1941 and commenced practice in Cleveland; member, Ohio house of representatives 1943-1947; member, Ohio senate 1947-1951; campaign manager for United States Senator Stephen M. Young 1958, 1964; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United States Senate 1970; chairman of a group of suburban weeklies in the Cleveland area; appointed by the Governor, January 4, 1974, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Saxbe and served from January 4, 1974, until his resignation December 23, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1974; resumed the practice of law; elected on November 2, 1976, to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1977; subsequently appointed by the Governor, December 29, 1976, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Taft, Jr. for the term ending January 3, 1983; reelected in 1982 and 1988 and served from December 29, 1976, to January 3, 1995; was not a candidate for reelection in 1994; chairman, Consumer Federation of America (1995-2008); died in Aventura, Florida, on March 12, 2008; interment in Mayfield Cemetery, Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
