biography
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| (1872–1940)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. He joined the Alaskan gold rush (1897–1901) and was a lawyer who specialized in mining law. He served in the US Senate (Democrat, Nevada, 1913–40), and, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he strongly supported President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. Above all, he looked after the interests of the silver-mining states, and used his legal skills to see that the price of silver was kept up through government purchases. |
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