He defeated astronaut John Glenn in the Democratic primary by a 51% to 49% margin, but narrowly lost to Robert Taft, Jr. in the general election. In 1970, Metzenbaum ran for the Senate seat vacated by Young, who chose not to run for a third term. John Glenn, former rival and later ally to Metzenbaum He returned to assist Young in a successful re-election campaign in 1964. Young, who, in a major upset, narrowly unseated incumbent Senator John Bricker, the Republican Party’s 1944 Vice Presidential nominee. In 1958, he served as the campaign manager for future U.S. Senator Stephen M. He then served in the Ohio Senate from 1947 to 1951. Metzenbaum served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947. In the early 1970s, Metzenbaum also co-owned the Sun Newspapers chain of weeklies which covered the Cleveland suburbs, a venture undertaken after his first senatorial election defeat. By 1970, he had sold his interest in APCOA Parking for $20 million. The business expanded to become Airport Parking Company of America (APCOA), the world’s largest parking lot company. Metzenbaum became independently wealthy through investments, particularly in real estate near what became the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, which Metzenbaum and his partner, Alva “Ted” Bonda, correctly envisioned would make for extremely profitable, 24-hour, well-lit parking lots. After initially facing discrimination due to his Jewish heritage, he found acceptance representing large labor unions, first with the Communications Workers of America and later the International Association of Machinists. During the 1940s, he practiced law in Cleveland. He graduated from Ohio State University, receiving a bachelor‘s degree in 1939 and a law degree in 1941. He attended Glenville High School, for whom he ran track, while also working odd jobs after hours. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and France, and his maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews. Metzenbaum was born 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, to a poor family, the son of Anna ( née Klafter) and Charles I.
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