biography
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McCall, Tom
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popular name of Thomas Lawson McCall
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| lived:
| (1913–83)
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| biography:
| Journalist and governor, born in Egypt, Massachusetts, USA. After serving in World War 2 as a US Navy correspondent, he became a television journalist in Portland, OR and produced Pollution in Paradise. A Republican, he became Oregon's secretary of state (1964–6), and as governor (1967–75) he passed 100 environmental protection bills, including the first state fuel conservation plan (1974). He later chaired environmental foundations. |
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