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Make America Happen George McGovern 1972 Political 2 Color Silkscreen Poster. Ships in New Tube Priority Mail. Creases, Folds & Tears SEE PHOTOS
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George McGovern
"Senator McGovern"
George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian and South Dakota politician who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
George McGovern
United States Senator
from South Dakota
In office
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1981
Preceded by Joseph H. Bottum
Succeeded by James Abdnor
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture
In office March 10, 1998 – September 28, 2001
President
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded by Thomas A. Forbord
Succeeded by Tony P. Hall
Chair of the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
In office July 1968 – December 1977
Preceded by Committee established
Succeeded by Committee abolished
Director of Food for Peace
In office January 21, 1961 – July 18, 1962
President John F. Kennedy
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Richard W. Reuter
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Dakota's 1st district
In office January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1961
Preceded by Harold Lovre
Succeeded by Ben Reifel
Personal details Born
George Stanley McGovern July 19, 1922
Avon, South Dakota, U.S.
Died October 21, 2012 (aged 90)
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S.
Resting place Rock Creek Cemetery
Political party Democratic
Other political
affiliations Progressive (1948)
Spouse Eleanor Stegeberg
(m. 1943; died 2007)
Children 6
Education
Dakota Wesleyan University (BA)
Garrett Theological Seminary
Northwestern University (MA, PhD)
Military service
Branch/service
US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings U.S. Army Air Forces
Years of insignia First lieutenant
Unit
741st Bomb Squadron
455th Bombardment Group
Fifteenth Air Force
Battles/wars
World War II
European Flying Cross DFC Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Air Medal ' Air Medal, with three oak leaf clusters
George McGovern on the 'Concentration of Power' during his 1984 Presidential Campaign
Recorded March 11, 1984
McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he became a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II. As a B-24 Liberator pilot, he flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. Among the medals he received was a Distinguished Flying Cross for making a hazardous emergency landing of his damaged plane and saving his crew. After the war he earned degrees from Dakota Wesleyan University and Northwestern University, culminating in a PhD, and served as a history professor. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956 and re-elected in 1958. After a failed offer for the U.S. Senate in 1960, he was a successful candidate in 1962.
As a senator, McGovern was an example of modern American liberalism. He became most known for his outspoken opposition to the growing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He staged a brief nomination run in the 1968 presidential election as a stand-in for the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. The subsequent McGovern–Fraser Commission fundamentally altered the presidential nominating process, by increasing the number of caucuses and primaries and reducing the influence of party insiders. The McGovern–Hatfield Amendment sought to end the Vietnam War by legislative means but was defeated in 1970 and 1971. McGovern's long-shot, grassroots-based 1972 presidential campaign found triumph in gaining the Democratic nomination but left the party split ideologically, and the failed vice-presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton undermined McGovern's credibility. In the general election McGovern lost to incumbent Richard Nixon in one of the biggest landslides in U.S. electoral history. Though re-elected to the Senate in 1968 and 1974, McGovern was defeated in his offer for a fourth term in 1980.
Beginning with his experiences in war-torn Italy and continuing throughout his career, McGovern was involved in issues related to agriculture, food, nutrition, and hunger. As the first director of the Food for Peace program in 1961, McGovern oversaw the distribution of U.S. surpluses to the needy abroad and was instrumental in the creation of the United Nations-run World Food Programme. As sole chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs from 1968 to 1977, McGovern publicized the problem of hunger within the United States and issued the "McGovern Report", which led to a new set of nutritional guidelines for Americans. McGovern later served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1998 to 2001 and was appointed the first UN global ambassador on world hunger by the World Food Programme in 2001. The McGovern–Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program has provided school meals for millions of children in dozens of countries since 2000 and resulted in McGovern's being named World Food Prize co‑laureate in 2008.
