Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989

LC control no.	n 81071811
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Pepper, Claude Denson, 1900-1989
Birth date	19000908
Death date	19890530
Place of birth	Dudleyville (Ala.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	University of Alabama Harvard Law School United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. House
Profession or occupation	Legislators
Found in	U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on education and labor. Education for physically handicapped children ... 1938. NUCMC data from Univ. of Fla., P.K. Yonge Lib. for Newspaper clippings relating to Claude Pepper, 1948-1958 (Claude Denson Pepper, b. 9-8-1900) Memorial services held in the ... 1990: t.p. (Claude Denson Pepper) p. xvi (d. 5-30-89) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, Apr. 23, 2013 (Pepper, Claude Denson, 1900-1989; Senate years of service: 1936-1951; party: Democrat; a Senator and a Representative from Florida; born on a farm near Dudleyville, Chambers County, Ala., September 8, 1900; graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1921 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1924; taught law in the University of Arkansas in 1924 and 1925; admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Perry, Fla.; member of the State house of representatives in 1929 and 1930; moved to Tallahassee, Fla., in 1930 and continued the practice of law; served on the State board of public welfare in 1931 and 1932; member of the State board of law examiners in 1933; elected on November 3, 1936, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Duncan U. Fletcher; reelected in 1938 and 1944 and served from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951; chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1950 and for nomination in 1958; engaged in the practice of law at Miami Beach, Coral Gables, and Tallahassee, Fla., and in Washington, D.C.; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1963, until his death; chairman, Select Committee on Crime (Ninety-first through Ninety-sixth Congresses), Select Committee on Aging (Ninety-fifth through Ninety-seventh Congress), Committee on Rules (Ninety-eighth through One Hundred First Congresses); awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 26, 1989; died in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 1989)