May 13, 1930

Springfield, Massachusetts

Arlington, Virginia

B.S. in Economics from Columbia University, New York City, and four honorary degrees in law and public affairs

Presidential candidate

Served on the Finance, Interior, and Environmental and Public Works committees, chairing the Energy, Water Resources, Buildings and Grounds, and Environmental Pollution subcommittees; waged a successful one-man filibuster in 1971 that effectively ended the draft in the United States; entered into the Senate record thousands of pages from the Pentagon Papers, a secret official history that revealed government deception on the Vietnam War; founded and served as president of The Democracy Foundation, Philadelphia II, and Direct Democracy, nonprofit corporations dedicated to the establishment of direct democracy in the United States through the enactment of the National Initiative for Democracy by American voters

Alaska House of Representatives from 1963-1966, and Speaker from 1965-66; US Senate from 1969-81

US Army (1951-54), served as special adjutant in the Communication Intelligence Services and as a Special Agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps

"Jobs and More Jobs" and "Citizen Power"

Wife Whitney Stewart Gravel, two children, Martin Gravel and Lynne Gravel Mosier, and four grandchildren

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