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Ervin, Sam(uel James, Jr)
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| (1896–1985)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Morganton, North Carolina, USA. An expert on constitutional law, he served in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, North Carolina, 1946–7) and as a judge before entering the US Senate (1954–74), where he opposed civil rights legislation, supported the Vietnam War, and generally favoured conservative causes. He won his greatest fame for presiding over the Watergate committee investigation (1973), where his impassioned speeches on the Constitution's restraints on the government raised the hearings and himself above partisan politics and ideology. |
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