Mike Gravel
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'''Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel''' (b 1930) | '''Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel''' (b 1930) | ||
| − | Mike Gravel was born in Springfield, Hampden County, [[Massachusetts]] on [[May 13]], 1930 | + | 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> |
| − | He ran again for Senate in 1980 but was defeated. He 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. | + | 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. |
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]]. | 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]]. | ||
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===Secondary sources=== | ===Secondary sources=== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia | *[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://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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=g000388 "Maurice Robert Gravel"] on Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | ||
