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'''Mike Gravel''' (b 1930/1)

He is a former US Senator from [[Alaska]].  He has been in the legislature since at least 1971, when<blockquote>Back in 1971, when President Nixon's Justice Department blocked the New York Times from reporting on a classified study about government deception in the Vietnam War, then-Sen. Gravel put the study on public record by reading aloud about 4,000 pages of what came to be known as "The Pentagon Papers." </blockquote>

He married Whitney Unknown in 1983/4.  He is running on the Democratic ticket for the US Presidential Election of 2008.  His Democratic challengers are: [[Hillary Diane Rodham|Hillary Clinton]], [[Christopher Dodd]], [[John Edwards]], [[Dennis Kucinich]], [[Barack Obama]], [[Joseph Biden|Joe Biden]], and [[William Richardson|Bill Richardson]].

===Secondary sources===
*[http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2007/07/05/1 "Who is this Mike Gravel?"] on Planetout.com

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