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Oil on canvas, Robert Bruce Williams, 1987, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
FASCELL, Dante Bruno, a Representative from Florida; born in Bridgehampton, Long Island,
Suffolk County, N.Y., March 9, 1917; moved with his parents to Miami, Fla., in
1925; graduated from Ponce de Leon High School, Coral Gables, Fla., in 1933;
from the law school of the University of Miami, J.D., 1938; was admitted to the
bar in 1938 and commenced the practice of law in Miami; during the Second World
War entered the Federal service with the Florida National Guard on January 6,
1941; commissioned a second lieutenant May 23, 1942; served in the African,
Sicilian, and Italian campaigns, and separated from the service as a captain
January 20, 1946; legal attaché to the State legislative delegation from
Dade County 1947-1950; member of the State house of representatives 1950-1954;
appointed by the President to represent the United States at the Twenty-fourth
General Assembly of the United Nations, 1969; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-fourth and to the eighteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1955-January 3, 1993); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Ninety-eighth
through One Hundred Second Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in
1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress; practiced law in Miami; presented the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1998;
died November 28, 1998, in Clearwater, Fla.
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