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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaBIBLE, Alan Harvey
(1909—1988)
Senate Years of Service:
1954-1974
Party:
Democrat
BIBLE, Alan Harvey, a Senator from Nevada; born in Lovelock, Pershing County, Nev., November 20, 1909; graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1930 and from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1934; admitted to the Nevada bar in 1935 and commenced the practice of law in Reno, Nev.; district attorney of Storey County 1935-1938; appointed deputy attorney general of Nevada in 1938; State attorney 1942-1950; resumed private practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, November 2, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Patrick A. McCarran for the term ending January 3, 1957; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 and served from December 2, 1954, until his resignation December 17, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eighty-fifth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Select Committee on Small Business (Ninety-first through Ninety-third Congresses); resumed the practice of law; died in Auburn, Ca., September 12, 1988; interment in Masonic Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Reno, Nev.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
; Elliott, Gary E. Senator Alan Bible and the Politics of the New West
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.
Elliott, Gary E. “A Legacy of Support: Senator Alan Bible and the Nevada Mining Industry.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
31 (Fall 1988): 183-97.
___. “Land, Water, and Power: The Politics of Nevada Senator Alan Bible, 1934-1974.” Ph.D. dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 1990.
___. Senator Alan Bible and the Politics of the New West
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.
___. “Senator Alan Bible and the Expansion of the National Park System.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
34 (Winter 1991): 488-502.
___. “Senator Alan Bible and the Southern Nevada Water Project, 1954-1971.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
32 (Fall 1989): 181-97.
___. “Whose Land Is It? The Battle for the Great Basin National Park, 1957-1967.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
34 (Spring 1991): 241-56.
___. “A Work Horse, Not a Show Horse: Alan Bible and the Path to Power in the United States Senate, 1954 to 1974.” Halcyon
15 (1993): 149-60.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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