biography
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Kilgore, Harley M(artin)
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| lived:
| (1893–1956)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Brown, West Virgina, USA. A liberal West Virginia judge, he went on to serve in the US Senate (Democrat, West Virginia, 1941–56). He chaired the so-called Kilgore committee that oversaw US mobilization efforts for World War 2 and helped to set up the War Mobilization Board (1943). On the influential Appropriations Committee, he helped to establish the National Science Foundation (1950). |
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