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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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1989-01-01 |
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| Name | Claude D. Pepper |
| Address |
Miami, Florida , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 08, 1900
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| Died | May 30, 1989
(88 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | Mr. Matt
Oct 15, 2012 04:10pm |
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| Info | Born on a farm near Dudleyville, Chambers County, Ala., September 8, 1900; attended the public schools of Camp Hill, Ala.; taught school in Dothan, Ala., and worked in a steel mill in Ensley, Ala., before attending college; served in Students Army Training Corps, University of Alabama, in 1918; was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1921 and from law department of Harvard University in 1924; taught law in the University of Arkansas in 1924 and 1925; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Perry, Fla.; member of the State house of representatives in 1929 and 1930; moved to Tallahassee, Fla., in 1930 and continued the practice of law; served on the State board of public welfare in 1931 and 1932; member of the State board of law examiners in 1933; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Duncan U. Fletcher; reelected in 1938 and again in 1944 and served from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951; chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1950 and for nomination in 1958; engaged in the practice of law at Miami Beach, Coral Gables, and Tallahassee, Fla., and in Washington, D.C.; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1963 until his death in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 1989; chairman, Select Committee on Crime (Ninety-first through Ninety-sixth Congresses), Select Committee on Aging (Ninety-fifth through Ninety-seventh Congress), Committee on Rules (Ninety-eighth through One Hundred First Congresses); lay in state in the rotunda of the Capitol; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Tallahasse, Fla.
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