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    George McGovern

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  1. 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.

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  2. Mar 25, 2024 · Democratic Party. George McGovern (born July 19, 1922, Avon, South Dakota, U.S.—died October 21, 2012, Sioux Falls, South Dakota) was an American politician who was an unsuccessful reformist Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1972. He campaigned on a platform advocating an immediate end to the Vietnam War and for a broad program ...

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  3. Oct 21, 2012 · By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News. Updated at 12:36 p.m. ET: George McGovern, the unabashedly liberal Democratic senator whose outsider campaign against President Richard Nixon led to a landslide ...

  4. Oct 21, 2012 · Obituary. George McGovern obituary. Democratic US presidential candidate who lost to Richard Nixon. Harold Jackson. Sun 21 Oct 2012 08.21 EDT. In the long roll-call of characters involved in...

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  6. Oct 21, 2012 · Oct. 21, 2012. George McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972 as an opponent of the war in Vietnam and a champion of liberal causes,...

  7. Oct 21, 2012 · US liberal icon George McGovern, who has died at the age of 90 in a South Dakota hospice, was the Democratic nominee who ran unsuccessfully against President Richard Nixon in 1972. He earned...

  8. Jul 3, 2019 · George McGovern was a South Dakota Democrat who represented liberal values in the United States Senate for decades and became widely known for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1972, and lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide . Fast Facts: George McGovern. Full Name: George Stanley McGovern.

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