Mike McKevitt
James Douglas "Mike" McKevitt was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Born in Spokane, Washington, McKevitt graduated from Grant High School in Sacramento, California.
He received a B.A. from the University of Idaho in 1951, and a law degree from the University of Denver School of Law in 1956.
He was in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953, rising to the rank of captain.
He was a lawyer in private practice.
He served as assistant attorney general, Colorado state attorney general's office from 1958 to 1967.
He served as District Attorney, Denver, Colorado from 1967 to 1971, during which time McKevitt became known for prosecuting and harassing Denver's "hippies" and the restaurants where they would eat.
McKevitt was elected as a Republican to the Ninety-second Congress. That year, 20-year incumbent Democrat Byron Rogers had been defeated in the primary by a considerably more liberal Democrat, attorney Craig Barnes, and the division combined with McKevitt's popularity to produce a Republican pickup. However, McKevitt was a conservative Republican in a strongly Democratic district, and he was defeated for reelection to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972 by liberal Democrat Pat Schroeder.
McKevitt remained in Washington for some time after his brief congressional term, serving as Assistant United States Attorney General, Office of Legislation in 1973, a counsel on energy policy the White House from 1973 to 1974, and a member of the Korean War Memorial Commission from 1987 to 1995. He died on September 28, 2000, in Washington, D.C. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
