biography
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Jackson, Henry M(artin)
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| lived:
| (1912–83)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Everett, Washington, USA. He served in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Washington, 1941–53) and in the US Senate (1953–83). Known as the ‘Senator from Boeing’, he was a staunch supporter of the interests of his state's defence industry, and also advocated an anti-Soviet foreign policy. He was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1972 and 1976. |
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