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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandPELL, Claiborne de Borda
(1918—)
Senate Years of Service:
1961-1997
Party:
Democrat
PELL, Claiborne de Borda, (son of Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr., great-great-grandson of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, great-great-grandnephew of George Mifflin Dallas, great-great-great-grandnephew of William Charles Cole Claiborne and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne), a Senator from Rhode Island; born in New York City, November 22, 1918; graduated, Princeton University 1940 and Columbia University 1946; served in the United States Coast Guard 1941-1945; served in United States Coast Guard Reserve; State Department and foreign service officer in Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Washington 1945-1952; businessman; served on a wide variety of government commissions and committees; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1960; reelected in 1966, 1972, 1978, 1984 and 1990 and served from January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1997; was not a candidate for reelection in 1996; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (One Hundredth through One Hundred Third Congresses); appointed U.S. delegate to the United Nations, 1997.
Fenno, Richard, Jr. Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Pell, Claiborne. “American Education to the End of the Century.”Journal of Teacher Education
27 (Winter 1976): 294.
___. “Federal Support for the Arts Has a Future.” Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science
471 (January 1984): 102-6.
___. Megalopolis Unbound: The Supercity and the Transportation of Tomorrow
. New York: Praeger, 1966.
___. Power and Policy: America’s Role in World Affairs
. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972.
Pell, Claiborne, and Harold Leland Goodwin. Challenge of the Seven Seas
. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1986.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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