biography
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Pepper, Claude D(enson)
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| (1900–89)
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| biography:
| US senator and representative, born near Dudleyville, Alabama, USA. A pro-labour liberal, he was elected to the US Senate (Democrat, Florida, 1936–50), where he supported Roosevelt's domestic and foreign policies. After losing his seat in an election marked by anti-Communist hysteria, he was elected to the US House of Representatives (1962–89). Congress's oldest member in his last years, he defended social security and opposed retirement restrictions. |
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