Claiborne Pell
Claiborne de Borda Pell ( born November 22, 1918 in New York City; † January 1, 2009 in Newport, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician who represented the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. Senate.
Life
Background and education
Claiborne Pell grew up in a family of diplomats. So his father was Herbert Pell (1884-1961) U.S. Ambassador to Portugal and Hungary and briefly, from 1919 to 1921, Member of Parliament for Rhode Iceland in the House of Representatives of the United States. Other well-known politicians, who are from the family Pell, Pell's are great great great grandfather John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne (1809-1884), former congressman for the state of Mississippi, and George Mifflin Dallas Pell Urururonkel, the under James K. Polk, the office of U.S. Vice-President held. He was also a Ururururenkel the Governor of Louisiana, William Charles Cole Claiborne and Nathaniel Claiborne, a congressman from Virginia. Moreover, Pell was distantly related to the mathematician John Pell.
Pell grew up in Rhode Iceland, where he graduated from the schools. In 1940 he received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Princeton University in 1946 and his Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. He then completed his military service in the United States Coast Guard. In 1945 he obtained a position in the U.S. State Department and served until 1952 in embassies in Czechoslovakia and Italy.
Political career
1960 Pell was chosen to be the successor to the after 24 years in office no longer antretenden Theodore F. Green for the office of U.S. Senator from Rhode Iceland and could in the primaries even former governors, including Dennis J. Roberts and J. Howard McGrath, leave behind. As the Democratic candidate Pell won the election in the fall of 1960 and took office on January 3, 1961. He then served for 36 years in the Senate, officiated six terms of office and entered the grounds of age until 3 January 1997. Pell was thus the longest-serving Senator from Rhode Iceland. From 1987 to 1995 he was Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate. After the Pell Pell Grant has been designated a 1973 was to start the law that poorer students should facilitate access to universities.
Private life
Pell was married to Nuala O'Donnell, the heir to the supermarket chain The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. The couple has four children, three sons and a daughter. Pell was in the U.S. as a supporter of gay rights, no doubt why, because his daughter had been outed as a lesbian. Last Pell suffered from Parkinson's disease, from which he died in January 2009 at the age of 90 years.