1. Graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1956 and Yale University in 1960. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1963. Served in the United States Air Force (1963) and United States Air Force Reserve (1963-1969). From 1970 - 1971, he was a member of the faculty at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie-Mellon University. His career as a businessman included positions as analyst, controller's division, and numerous positions in the marketing division of the H.J. Heinz Company. Elected U.S. House of Representatives (1971-76) and US Senator from Pennsylvania (1977 - 1991). Heinz's 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 Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-sixth and Ninety-ninth Congresses) and a member of the Special Committee on Aging (Ninety-seventh through Ninety-ninth Congresses). Heinz and six other people were killed when a Bell 412 SP helicopter collided with the Senator's Piper Aerostar plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pennsylvania. All aboard the two aircraft and two children playing outside the school were killed. The helicopter had been dispatched to check out a problem Heinz's plane was having 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. [589]