Mike Gravel
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| − | He is | + | ==Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel== |
| + | Mike Gravel was born in Springfield, Hampden County, [[Massachusetts]] on 13 May 1930 to French-Canadian immigrants Alphonse Gravel and his wife Marie Bourassa. He is a former US Senator from [[Alaska]]. He was in the Alaska house of representatives 1962-66 and elected speaker in 1965. Democrat to the US Senate from Alaska 1969-81.<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> | ||
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| + | He ran again for Senate in 1980 but was defeated. He married first Rita Martin about 1958 and they divorced in 1980. He then married Whitney Stewart in 1983/4 and has two children: Martin Gravel of Colorado and Lynne Gravel Mosier of California. He also has four grandchildren. | ||
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| + | He ran on the Democratic ticket for the US Presidential Election of 2008. His Democratic challengers were: [[Hillary Diane Rodham|Hillary Clinton]], [[Christopher Dodd]], [[John Edwards]], [[Dennis Kucinich]], [[Barack Obama]], [[Joseph Biden|Joe Biden]], and [[William Richardson|Bill Richardson]]. | ||
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| + | ===Secondary sources=== | ||
| + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia | ||
| + | *[http://www.wargs.com/political/gravel.html "The Ancestors of Mike Gravel"], by Robert Battle and hosted on the website of William Addams Reitwiesner | ||
| + | *[http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2007/07/05/1 "Who is this Mike Gravel?"] on Planetout.com | ||
| + | *[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=g000388 "Maurice Robert Gravel"] on Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | ||
| + | *[http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/361314.shtml "Mike Gravel Biography"] at Portland Independent Media Center | ||
| + | *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=bgmi&so=2&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=maurice&gsln=gravel&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-b&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416 Biography and Genealogy Master Index] | ||
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| + | ==Alphonse Gravel== | ||
| + | ===Secondary sources for 2=== | ||
| + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia | ||
| + | *[http://www.wargs.com/political/gravel.html "The Ancestors of Mike Gravel"], by Robert Battle and hosted on the website of William Addams Reitwiesner | ||
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| + | ==Marie Bourassa== | ||
| + | ===Secondary sources for 3=== | ||
| + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia | ||
| + | *[http://www.wargs.com/political/gravel.html "The Ancestors of Mike Gravel"], by Robert Battle and hosted on the website of William Addams Reitwiesner | ||
[[Category:Alaska]] | [[Category:Alaska]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Massachusetts]] | ||
| + | [[Category:US Presidential Election 2008]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Famous Men]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Politicians]] | ||
