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  1. Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (July 15, 1924 – March 28, 2014) was an American politician and military officer who served as a U.S. Senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987. He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to a Senate seat in Alabama. Denton was previously a United States Navy rear admiral and naval aviator taken ...

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  2. Mar 29, 2014 · Jeremiah Denton Jr., who survived nearly eight years of captivity in North Vietnamese prisons, died this week in Virginia Beach. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on his remarkable life.

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  4. Mar 28, 2014 · Former Sen. Denton, who used eyes to send secret message, dead at 89 00:30. Prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton declared his loyalty to the U.S. government during a 1966 interview for what was ...

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  5. Mar 28, 2014 · Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. was born in Mobile, Ala., on July 15, 1924, one of three sons of Jeremiah and Irene Steele Denton. His father, a hotel clerk, moved the family often and the boy attended ...

  6. Mar 28, 2014 · Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 12.48 EDT. Former Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton, who survived seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the US military to ...

  7. Feb 26, 2018 · After retiring from the Navy with the rank of rear admiral, he served one term as U.S. senator from Alabama from 1981-87. Denton’s 1975 memoir, When Hell Was in Session, was recently reissued with an updated epilogue. Jeremiah Denton, now 85, spoke recently with journalist and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson in Arlington, Virginia.

  8. Mar 28, 2014 · Rear Adm. Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr., USN (Ret.) died in a Virginia Beach, Va. hospice due to complications from a heart ailment, according to local press reports. He was 89. Denton — born in ...

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