Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 until his death in 1969, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s.
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- Born in
- Pekin
- Educated at
- primary schoolUniversity of Minnesota Law School
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"We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again."
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1896
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Birth1969
Died
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