Former Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan’s Longest-Serving Senator, Dies at 87

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) questions a witness during a hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington on Nov. 20, 2014. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Former Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), a 36-year veteran of the Senate, has died at the age of 87, his family said late on Thursday.

The late senator’s death was announced by the Levin Center at Wayne State University in Detroit in a statement that described him as a “dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, and life-long public servant.”