biography
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Goldwater, Barry M(orris)
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| lived:
| (1909–98)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The grandson of an immigrant pedlar in the Western mining camps, he inherited a prosperous department-store business of which he became president in 1937. An active sportsman, he was one of the first white men to navigate the Colorado R through the Grand Canyon, and during World War 2 he was a pilot in the US Air Force (1941–5). A conservative Republican, he served in the US Senate (Arizona, 1953–65, 1969–87). He was also chairman of the Armed Services Committee. He ran for the presidency (1964) but was defeated in a landslide victory by Lyndon B Johnson. Although he espoused traditional, Republican values, he often surprised his ideological opponents by his maverick positions, and in 1993 he advocated opening the armed forces to homosexuals. |
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