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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.

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  2. Mar 29, 2014 · He Survived Captivity, One Minute At A Time Jeremiah Denton Jr., who survived nearly eight years of captivity in North Vietnamese prisons, died this week in Virginia Beach. NPR's Scott Simon ...

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  4. Mar 28, 2014 · U.S. Ex-senator and Vietnam POW who blinked "torture" in Morse code dies. March 28, 2014 / 1:07 PM EDT / CBS/AP. Prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton declared his loyalty to the U.S. government...

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  5. Mar 27, 2023 · A native of Mobile, Mobile County, Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. (1924-2014) was the first Republican senator elected from Alabama since the end of the Reconstruction era.

  6. Mar 28, 2014 · Mr. Denton, who returned home after seven years as a prisoner and became a rear admiral and a United States senator from Alabama, died on Friday at Sentara Hospice House in Virginia Beach, his...

  7. Mar 28, 2014 · 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 conditions there when he blinked the word...

  8. Feb 26, 2018 · by Amy Chan 2/26/2018. Share This Article. A 1947 Naval Academy graduate, Jeremiah Denton was piloting an A6 Intruder over North Vietnam on July 18, 1965, when he was shot down and taken prisoner. Denton was held for nearly eight years, during which time he was tortured repeatedly and thrown in solitary confinement for long periods.

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