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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandClaiborne de Borda PELL
(1918-2009)
Senate Years of Service:
1961-1997Party: DemocratPELL, 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; was a resident of Newport,
Rhode Island, until his death on January 1, 2009; interment in St.
Columba’s Chapel cemetery, Middletown, Rhode Island.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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