John O. Pastore

John Orlando Pastore ( born March 17, 1907 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † July 15, 2000 in Cranston, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who served as governor of Rhode Iceland and this state in the U.S. Senate represented.

Life

After attending high school in his hometown of Providence Pastore graduated in 1931 at the Law School at Northeastern University in Boston. After he returned to Providence, where he practiced law.

Policy

In 1935 he was elected to the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland, where he remained until 1937. From 1937-1938 and 1940-1944 Pastore was Deputy Attorney General of Rhode Iceland. In 1944 he was Deputy Governor of the State; two years later he enlisted as a successor to J. Howard McGrath, who took over the post of United States Solicitor General, on the governor. Pastore was the first Italian-American, who has held this office; 1946 and 1948 he was confirmed in each case with a safe majority of the voters.

As the Democratic Party in 1950 a successor of the interim exchanged in the U.S. Senate and now retired J. Howard McGrath was looking for, the choice fell on John Pastore. The interim successor to certain Edward L. Leahy was it not considered. Pastore won the by-election and defended his Senate seat in 1970 up to and including four times. In this last confirmation in office, he sat down with 68:32 percent of the vote against the eventual TV presenter John McLaughlin by, who had come to the Republicans. 1976 candidate Pastore, who in 1964 held the opening speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, no more.

Remembered John Pastore is among other things, an episode in his time as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications. When U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1969 planned support for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and total non -commercial broadcasting in the United States of 20 to be reduced to 10 million U.S. dollars annually, Pastore invited the PBS presenter Fred Rogers a hearing before the committee. Rogers, with its targeting mainly on the educational field activities Pastore was not familiar, spoke in his five minute explanation on the need for social and emotional education, for the sorrow that public television. Pastore, sometimes described by contemporaries as rude and impatient, said, Rogers' statement had caused goose bumps at him and closed with the words from "Looks like you just earned the $ 20 million. " ( "Looks as if you had just the 20 earned millions of dollars. " )

John O. Pastore died in 2000 of kidney failure.