biography
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Ida Grove, Iowa, USA. An army veteran of World War 2, he served on the Iowa Commission of Commerce (1946–58). As Democratic governor of Iowa (1963–9), he increased school funding, established a Civil Rights Commission, and strengthened consumer protection programmes. Resigning to go to the US Senate (1969–75), he dropped out of politics because of his problems with alcohol, and later opened the Hughes Centers for Alcoholism and Drug Treatment. |
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