Alan Cranston
| Alan Cranston | |
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| Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs | |
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In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Murkowski |
| Succeeded by | Jay Rockefeller |
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In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Vance Hartke |
| Succeeded by | Alan K. Simpson |
| Senate Majority Whip | |
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In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1991 |
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| Leader |
Robert Byrd George Mitchell |
| Preceded by | Alan K. Simpson |
| Succeeded by | Wendell Ford |
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In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Leader | Robert Byrd |
| Preceded by | Robert Byrd |
| Succeeded by | Ted Stevens |
| Senate Minority Whip | |
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In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Leader | Robert Byrd |
| Preceded by | Ted Stevens |
| Succeeded by | Alan K. Simpson |
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United States Senator from California |
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In office January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Kuchel |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Boxer |
| 25th California State Controller | |
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In office 1959–1967 |
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| Governor | Pat Brown |
| Preceded by | Robert C. Kirkwood |
| Succeeded by | Houston I. Flournoy |
| Personal details | |
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Alan MacGregor Cranston June 19, 1914 Los Altos, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 31, 2000 (aged 86) Los Altos, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Geneva McMath (divorced) Norma Weintraub (divorced) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California, from 1969 to 1993.
Cranston was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Carol (née Dixon) and William MacGregor Cranston. He attended Pomona College and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México before graduating from Stanford University in Palo Alto in 1936.
Cranston was born into a well-to-do family from Northern California with interests in real estate. He married and divorced twice. His first wife, Geneva McMath, was the mother of his sons, Robin, who died young in an auto accident, and Kim, who survived him. Cranston was later married to Norma Weintraub.
Cranston was a correspondent for the International News Service for two years preceding World War II. When an abridged English-language translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was released, sanitized to exclude some of Hitler's anti-semitism and , Cranston published a different translation (with annotations) which he believed more accurately reflected the contents of the book. In 1939, Hitler's publisher sued him for copyright violation in Connecticut; a judge ruled in Hitler's favor and publication of the book was halted.
Before enlisting in the armed forces in 1944 as a private (he held the rank of sergeant at his discharge), he worked as an editor and writer for the magazine Common Ground and later worked in the Office of War Information. The following year he wrote a second book, The Killing of the Peace, a synopsis of the failed bid to get the United States to join the League of Nations immediately following World War I.
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