Carl Bert Albert
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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.