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{{Officeholder
|name=Tip O'Neill
|succeeded=[[Joseph P. Kennedy II]]
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=[[United States]]
|rank=[[Colonel]]
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1972-2003
}}
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'''Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr.''' (1912-1994 ) was the [[Speaker of the House]] from 1977-1987, preceding [[James Wright]] and succeeding [[Carl Bert Albert]].
He is most famous both for being one of the longest serving Speakers and as a highly influential leader of the liberal Democrats in Congress in the days of [[Ronald Reagan]]. He served as Congressman from Cambridge and the Boston suburbs, 1953-87.