Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - A mụrụ Farnum na Saginaw, Michigan ma zụlite ya n'obodo ugbo dị na Watrousville. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Vassar High School, Vassar, Michigan, na 1933 wee gaa n'ihu agụmakwụkwọ ya na Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1935. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ agụmakwụkwọ pụrụ iche ma rụọ ọrụ n'ụlọ ọrụ ụgbọala na Pontiac, 1936-1952. O tinyere aka na ọrụ ndị otu sitere na onye na-elekọta ụlọ ọrụ na onye nnọchi anya mba ụwa maka United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1942-1952. Ọ bụ onye enyemaka nchịkwa nye U.S. Senator Blair Moody, 1952-1954 na onye enyemaka Michigan Secretary of State, 1955-1957; osote Michigan Secretary of State, 1957-1960; na Michigan Auditor General, 1961-1965. Ọ bụ onye nnọchiteanya na Democratic National Conventions nke 1956
1960, na 1964.