| LC control no. | n 81060140 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gilman, Benjamin A. |
| Birth date | 1922-12-06 |
| Death date | 2016-12-17 |
| Place of birth | Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Wappingers Falls (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | United States--Politics and government |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators |
| Found in | United States. Congress. House. Study Mission to Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. The shifting pattern of narcotics ... 1976. Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 19, 2016 (Benjamin A. Gilman, a longtime Republican congressman from New York who chaired the House International Relations Committee and helped arrange prisoner exchanges, died Dec. 17 [2016] at a veterans hospital in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. ; he was 94; first elected to the House in 1972; served 15 terms representing a sprawling district north of New York City that included all or parts of Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Westchester counties; Benjamin Arthur Gilman was born Dec. 6, 1922, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; in 2002, New York lost two congressional seats because of reapportionment after the 2000 Census; Mr. Gilman, the oldest member of the House at the time, chose to retire) |
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