Speaker of the House 91st, 92ns, and 93rd Congresses
Carl Albert
Oklahoma; born in North McAlester, Pittsburg County, Okla., May 10, 1908;
attended Flowery Mound Rural School; was graduated from McAlester High School in
1927, from the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1931, and (having been
awarded a Rhodes Scholarship) from Oxford University in England in 1934; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1935 and commenced practice in McAlester, Okla.;
during the Second World War enlisted in the United States Army on June 16, 1941,
as a private; served in the Pacific Theater and was discharged a lieutenant
colonel on February 17, 1946; awarded the Bronze Star; resumed the practice of
law; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1964, and 1968;
elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1977); majority whip (Eighty-fourth through
Eighty-seventh Congresses), majority leader (Eighty-seventh through Ninety-first
Congresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Ninety-second through
Ninety-fourth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the
Ninety-fifth Congress; He was a resident of McAlester, Okla. until his death on
February 4, 2000.
Bibliography
Albert, Carl, and Danney Goble. Little Giant: The Life and Times of Speaker
Carl Albert. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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