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H. John Heinz III
United States Senator from Pennsylvania
In office January 3, 1977 – April 4, 1991
Preceded by	Hugh D. Scott, Jr.
Succeeded by	Harris Wofford
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th district
In office November 2, 1971 – January 3, 1977
Preceded by	Robert J. Corbett
Succeeded by	Doug Walgren
Born	October 23, 1938(1938-10-23) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died	April 4, 1991 (aged 52) Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Teresa Heinz

Henry John Heinz III (October 23, 1938 – April 4, 1991) was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives (1971–1977) and the United States Senate (1977–1991).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Academic and Business Activities 3 Public Service 3.1 House of Representatives 3.2 Senate 4 Death 5 Personal life 6 Honors 7 Further reading 8 External links

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Heinz was the son of H. J. Heinz II (heir to the H. J. Heinz Company) and Joan Diehl. His parents divorced, and Heinz moved to San Francisco, California with his mother and his stepfather, U.S. Navy Captain Clayton C. McCauley. After graduating from the Town School, Phillips Exeter Academy in 1956 and Yale University in 1960, he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1963. In 1963, Heinz enlisted in the United States Air Force and served on active duty from June to December of that year at Lackland Air Force Base. He then served with the 911th Troop Carrier Group, based at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, as a member of the United States Air Force Reserve; he was honorably discharged in 1969 with the rank of staff sergeant.

From 1970 to 1971, Heinz was a member of the faculty at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. His career as a businessman included positions as an analyst in the controller's division, and numerous positions in the marketing division of the H. J. Heinz Company.

In 1971, he was elected by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert J. Corbett during the 92nd Congress. He was reelected to the 93rd and 94th Congresses. Heinz was elected to the Senate in 1976 and reelected in 1982 and 1988.

Heinz's initial election to the Senate was aided by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, Buckley v. Valeo, issued mid-campaign, which invalidated the Congressionally-placed restrictions on the spending of one's own personal funds in a political campaign. (See campaign finance.) Heinz spent millions of dollars attacking Democratic nominee William J. Green, a young seven term congressman from Philadelphia and future mayor of that city, as being "soft" on military issues because he had voted against various Defense appropriation bills in the Vietnam War era.

Heinz's Senate work was focused on retirement and the elderly, health care, international trade, finance and banking, environmental issues, human development and education. He was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (96th and 99th Congresses) and a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging (97th through 99th Congresses).

Heinz and six other people were killed on April 4, 1991, when a Bell 412 helicopter collided with the Senator's Piper Aerostar plane over Merion Elementary School in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. All aboard the two aircraft and two first-grade girls playing outside the school were killed. The helicopter had been dispatched to check out a problem when Heinz's plane was having problems with its landing gear. While moving in for a closer look, the helicopter's rotor blades struck the bottom of the plane, causing both aircraft to lose control and crash.

Coincidentally, the next day on April 5, former U.S. Senator from Texas John Tower, too a chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, died in a plane crash in Brunswick, Georgia.

He was interred in the Heinz family mausoleum in Homewood Cemetery, located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Teresa Simões-Ferreira married Heinz on February 5, 1966 in Pittsburgh. A few years after the marriage, in 1971, Teresa Heinz became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The couple had three sons: H. John Heinz IV (born 1967), Andre Heinz (born 1970) and Christopher Drake Heinz (born 1973).

According to her official biography, Teresa Heinz first met her future husband John Kerry in 1990 at an Earth Day rally. This was the only reported time that she and Kerry met before the death of Senator Heinz. After Senator Heinz died, she inherited his vast fortune. The principal beneficiary of Heinz's estate, she has been extremely active in expanding his legacy through philanthropy.

The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum was renamed following his death. The 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) refuge includes the largest remaining freshwater tidal marsh in Pennsylvania as well as other habitats that are home to a variety of plants and animals native to Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Several institutions bear his name, including:

• Senator H. John Heinz III Archives at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
• H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
• H. John Heinz III Center For Science, Economics and The Environment
• H. John Heinz III Center For the Performing Arts, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony
• Senator John Heinz History Center

• Heinz, H. John, III. "Foreign Takeover of U.S. Banking — a Real Danger?" Journal of the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies 4 (Autumn 1979): 1–9
• Heinz, John. U.S. Strategic Trade: An Export Control System for the 1990s. Boulder: Westview press, 1991.

• H. John Heinz III at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• John Heinz Legacy
• Senator H. John Heinz III Archives
• The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
• The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
• John Heinz's Gravesite
• Senator John Heinz History Center

Preceded by Robert J. Corbett	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district 1971–1977	Succeeded by Doug Walgren
Preceded by Hugh D. Scott, Jr.	United States Senator (Class 1) from Pennsylvania 1977–1991 Served alongside: Richard S. Schweiker and Arlen Specter	Succeeded by Harris Wofford
Preceded by Robert Packwood Oregon	Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee 1979–1981	Succeeded by Robert Packwood Oregon
Preceded by Lawton Chiles Florida	Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee 1981–1987	Succeeded by John Melcher Montana
Preceded by Richard Lugar Indiana	Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee 1985–1987	Succeeded by Rudy Boschwitz Minnesota

v • d • e United States Senators from Pennsylvania

Class 1: W. Maclay • Gallatin • Ross • S. Maclay • Leib • Roberts • Findlay • Barnard • Dallas • McKean • Sturgeon • Brodhead • S. Cameron • Wilmot • Buckalew • J. Scott • Wallace • Mitchell • Quay • Knox • Oliver • Knox • Crow • Reed • Guffey • Martin • H. Scott • Heinz • Wofford • Santorum • Casey Class 3: Morris • Bingham • Muhlenberg • Logan • Gregg • Lacock • Lowrie • Marks • Wilkins • Buchanan • S. Cameron • Cooper • Bigler • Cowan • S. Cameron • J. Cameron • Penrose • Pepper • Vare • Grundy • Davis • Myers • Duff • Clark • Schweiker • Specter

v • d • e Chairmen of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
Bridges • Brewster • Dirksen • Goldwater • Dirksen • Schoeppel • Goldwater • Morton • Murphy • Tower • Dominick • Brock • Stevens • Packwood • Heinz • Packwood • Lugar • Heinz • Boschwitz • Nickles • Gramm • D'Amato • McConnell • Frist • Allen • Dole • Ensign