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biography
pronunciation:
[grooning]
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| US senator, born in New York City, New York, USA. He graduated from Harvard Medical School but then proceeded to write and edit (1912–34). He edited the Nation (1920–3) and was territorial governor of Alaska (1939–53). Working to get Alaska accepted as a state, he wrote The State of Alaska (1954), and became one of the new state's first two US senators (Democrat, Alaska, 1959–69). He cast one of the two votes in opposition to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1964) that committed the US to pursuing the war in Vietnam, and he opposed US policies there to the end. Alaska placed his statue in the US Capitol. |
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