biography
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Albert, Carl (Bert)
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1908–2000)
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| biography:
| US politician, born near McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. He studied at the universities of Oklahoma and Oxford, then practised as a lawyer in Oklahoma. He became a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives (1947–77), and as majority leader (from 1962) created an alliance between Northern liberals and Southern ‘boll weevils’ to ensure the passage of President Johnson's Great Society legislation. In 1968, he presided over the disastrous Democratic convention, ruling against the delegates opposed to the war in Vietnam. Speaker of the House in 1971, he finally voted against the war in 1973. He retired in 1977. |
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