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Senate Years of Service: 1950-1976 Party: Democrat
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PASTORE, John Orlando, a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Providence, R.I., March 17, 1907; attended
the public schools; graduated from the law school of Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., in 1931;
admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice of law at Providence, R.I.; member, State
house of representatives 1935-1937; assistant attorney general of Rhode Island 1937-1938; member
Providence Charter Revision Commission 1939-1940; again assistant attorney general 1940-1944;
elected lieutenant governor of Rhode Island in 1944 and assumed the office of Governor, October 6,
1945; elected Governor in 1946; reelected in 1948 but resigned December 18, 1950, having been
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, November 7, 1950, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of J. Howard McGrath for the term ending January 3, 1953; reelected in 1952, 1958,
1964 and 1970 and served from December 19, 1950, until his resignation December 28, 1976; was
not a candidate for reelection in 1976; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
(Eighty-eighth, Ninetieth, Ninety-second, and Ninety-fourth Congresses); was a resident of Cranston,
R.I. and North Kingstown, R.I. until his death due to kidney failure on July 15, 2000; interment in St.
Anns Cemetery in Cranston.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Morgenthau, Ruth S. Pride Without Prejudice: The Life of John O. Pastore. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1989; Pastore, John O. The Story of
Communications from Beacon Light to Telstar. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1964.
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