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ALBERT, Carl Bert, (cousin of Charles Wesley Vursell), a Representative from [[Oklahoma]]; born in North McAlester, Pittsburg County, Okla., May 10, 1908; graduated from McAlester High School, McAlester, Okla., 1927; graduated from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., 1931, and (having been awarded a [[Rhodes Scholarship]]) from [[Oxford University]], Oxford, England, 1934; [[lawyer]], private practice; United States [[Army]], 1941-1946; awarded the [[Bronze Star]]; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1964, and 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1977); majority whip (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses), majority leader (Eighty-seventh through Ninety-first Congresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Ninety-second through Ninety-fourth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; died on February 4, 2000, in McAlester, Okla.
==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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[[Category:Speakers of the House of Representatives]]
==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
[[Category:Politics]]
[[Category:U.S. Congress]]
[[Category:Speakers of the House of Representatives]]