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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaAlan Harvey BIBLE
(1909-1988)
Senate Years of Service:
1954-1974Party: DemocratBIBLE, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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