Gravel takes the oath as he is sworn in as senator for Alaska in 1969. Gravel (pictured) gestures while talking to 'Occupy' activists at Lindenhof square in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. Former US Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, who took an anti-war stance while in office and later in life, died on Sunday. He had the unenviable position of being an Alaska Democrat when some residents were burning President Jimmy Carter in effigy for his measures to place large sections of public lands in the state under protection from development. Gravel's two terms came during tumultuous years for Alaska when construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was authorized and when Congress was deciding how to settle Alaska Native land claims and whether to classify enormous amounts of federal land as parks, preserves and monuments. Gravel had been living in Seaside, California, and was in failing health, said Theodore W. Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. His 2020 campaign for the Democratic nomination was notable in that it was managed by two teenagers.He then unsuccessfully sought the libertarian nomination that year.In 2008 he took then-candidate Barak Obama to task over the potential for nuclear war with Iran.Decades later he ran twice for president, once in 2008 and again briefly in 2020.He took an anti-war stance while in office, opposing the draft and led a one-man filibuster in Congress in which he read 4,100 pages of the Pentagon Papers. ![]() Gravel served two terms, representing Alaska from 1969 to 1981.
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