Mike Gravel

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'''Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel''' (b 1930)
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Mike Gravel was born in Springfield, Hampden County, [[Massachusetts]] on [[May 13]], 1930 "to French-Canadian immigrants".  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 Whitney Stewart in 1983/4 and has two children: Martin Gravel of Colorado and Lynne Gravel Mosier of CaliforniaHe also has four grandchildren.
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==Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel==
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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 1965Democrat 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 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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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]].
  
 
===Secondary sources===
 
===Secondary sources===
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia
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*[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
 
*[http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/361314.shtml "Mike Gravel Biography"] at Portland Independent Media Center
 
*[http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/361314.shtml "Mike Gravel Biography"] at Portland Independent Media Center
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*[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==
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===Secondary sources for 2===
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia
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*[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==
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===Secondary sources for 3===
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel "Mike Gravel"] on Wikipedia
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*[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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[[Category:Massachusetts]]
 
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[[Category:US Presidential Election 2008]]
 
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[[Category:Famous Men]]
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