Mike Gravel
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Mike Gravel was born in Springfield, Hampden County, [[Massachusetts]] on [[May 13]], 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> | Mike Gravel was born in Springfield, Hampden County, [[Massachusetts]] on [[May 13]], 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> | ||
