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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaDante Bruno FASCELL
(1917-1998)
FASCELL, Dante Bruno, a
Representative from Florida; born in Bridgehampton, Long Island,
Suffolk County, N.Y., March 9, 1917; moved with his parents to
Miami, Fla., in 1925; graduated from Ponce de Leon High School,
Coral Gables, Fla., in 1933; from the law school of the University
of Miami, J.D., 1938; was admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced
the practice of law in Miami; during the Second World War entered
the Federal service with the Florida National Guard on January 6,
1941; commissioned a second lieutenant May 23, 1942; served in the
African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns, and separated from the
service as a captain January 20, 1946; legal attaché to the
State legislative delegation from Dade County 1947-1950; member of
the State house of representatives 1950-1954; appointed by the
President to represent the United States at the Twenty-fourth
General Assembly of the United Nations, 1969; elected as a Democrat
to the Eighty-fourth and to the eighteen succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1955-January 3, 1993); chairman, Committee on Foreign
Affairs (Ninety-eighth through One Hundred Second Congresses); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third
Congress; practiced law in Miami; presented the Presidential Medal
of Freedom by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1998; died
November 28, 1998, in Clearwater, Fla.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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