Cranston, Alan
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Birthname | Alan MacGregor Cranston | ||||
born on | 19 June 1914 at 07:00 (= 07:00 AM ) | ||||
Place | Palo Alto, California, 37n27, 122w09 | ||||
Timezone | PST h8w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American politician, one of California's most durable liberal Democrats. With his poker-face and brisk style, he was still running for office and winning in his 70s. Colleagues said that he had a computer for a mind, with total memory of everyone's past and present voting record.
Born into a prosperous family, Cranston was educated at Stanford University. He became a journalist and foreign correspondent. He served in the Army during WW II and after the war, was the author of "Killing of the Peace," 1945. Cranston edited the first unexpurgated English translation of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" published in the United States and was later proud of having been sued for copyright violations by Adolf Hitler.
Post-war, he worked at his dad's Palo Alto real estate firm and became president of United World Federalists, an organization advocating world government.
He first held public office as Comptroller of the State of California in 1958. In his long career, he was re-elected to the U.S. Senate November 1986.
Cranston made two marriage, and there were two sons with the first marriage. One of his sons was killed in an accident 5/16/1980. Cranston was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990. Recovering, he continued to work until 1993, when he retired under the cloud of the savings and loan industry scandal. After a formal reprimand and sanction against him and four other senators, Cranston, who had received close to $1.2 million in political funds from Keating, said that he had been "politically stupid but ethically correct" in his actions.
He died on the last day of the millennium, December 31, 2000, age 86, at his home in Los Altos.
Relationships
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Richardson, H. L. (born 28 December 1927)
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1945 ("Killing of the Peace")
- Work : New Career 1958 (State Controller, CA)
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1990 (Prostate cancer)
Source Notes
B.C. in hand from Robert Paige.
Categories
- Traits : Mind : I.Q. high/ Mensa level (Mensa level; clear, precise mind)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Prostate)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two sons)
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event (Son killed)
- Lifestyle : Work : Retirement circumstances (Retired under scandal)
- Lifestyle : Work : Same Job more than 10 yrs (Senator for 24 years)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Civil/ Political (Investigated in S&L scandal)
- Passions : Criminal Victim : Lawsuit sued (Copywrite violations)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 86)
- Vocation : Military : Military service (During WW II)
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee (State Controller)
- Vocation : Politics : Public office (Senator)
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- 1914 births
- Birthday 19 June
- Birthplace Palo Alto, CA (US)
- Sun 27 Gemini
- Moon 11 Taurus
- Asc 25 Cancer
- 2000 deaths
- Traits : Mind : I.Q. high/ Mensa level
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event
- Lifestyle : Work : Retirement circumstances
- Lifestyle : Work : Same Job more than 10 yrs
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Civil/ Political
- Passions : Criminal Victim : Lawsuit sued
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Military : Military service
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee
- Vocation : Politics : Public office
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction