Carl Bert Albert

Carl Bert Albert (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
• 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)
• 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