1. John Orlando Pastore was an American lawyer and politician.
22 Facts About John Pastore
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John Pastore was the first Italian American elected to the Senate.
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John Pastore was born in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.
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John Pastore married her late husband's brother, Salvatore, who ran a tailoring business.
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John Pastore graduated with honors from Classical High School in 1925, and spent a year working a $15-a-week job as a claims adjuster for the Narragansett Electric Company.
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John Pastore received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1931, and was admitted to the bar the following year.
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John Pastore then established a law office in the basement of his family's home, but attracted few clients due to the Great Depression.
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In 1934, John Pastore was elected as a Democrat to the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
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John Pastore was re-elected in 1936, and became chairman of the House Corporations Committee.
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John Pastore served as an assistant attorney general from 1937 until 1938, when he lost that position after the Republican Party swept several statewide offices.
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John Pastore then served as a member of the Providence Charter Revision Commission from 1939 to 1940.
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John Pastore was elected Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island in 1944.
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John Pastore created a program to combat water pollution and a $20 million bonus for World War II veterans.
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In 1950, Pastore was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in a special election to succeed J Howard McGrath, who had resigned in 1949 to become United States Attorney General.
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In 1964 Pastore delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which nominated Lyndon B Johnson for the presidency.
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John Pastore voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Medicare program, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court.
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John Pastore served as the chairman of United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications.
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John Pastore is well remembered for taking part in a 1969 hearing involving a $20 million grant for the funding of PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting proposed by former President Lyndon Johnson.
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In 1971, John Pastore was one of twenty-five Senators to co-sponsor the Health Security Act, a bill that advocated health coverage for every person living in America through a government-run health insurance program.
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In 1976, John Pastore did not seek re-election, and retired from the Senate.
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John Pastore lived in Cranston, Rhode Island, until his death due to kidney failure on July 15,2000.
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The University of Rhode Island's John Pastore Hall, completed in 1953, is named for John Pastore.