biography
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| (1884–1961)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. A lawyer, he began his political career as a Republican district attorney in Wyoming. He moved to California, where he emerged as a liberal Democrat, and was elected to the US Senate (Democrat, California, 1939–50) where he supported old-age pension plans, restrictions on the military, land reclamation projects, and state control of offshore oil resources. |
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