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Bender, George Harrison
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| (1896–1961)
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| biography:
| US representative and senator, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Elected to the US House of Representatives (Republican, Ohio, 1939–49), he was an outspoken critic of the liberal policies of presidents Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. However, during his brief term in the US Senate (1954–7), he supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. He spent a year as a special assistant to the secretary of the interior (1957–8). |
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