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| | George McGovern Summary |
 | | George McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in Avon, South Dakota, a son of the Middle Border--the great prairie region steeped in agrarian, small-town, churchgoing ways and in populist liberalism and hope. |
 | | McGovern became executive secretary of the South Dakota Democratic party in 1953, a year of low Democratic morale, in a state where the party scarcely existed; he served until 1956, when he was elected to Congress. |
 | | McGovern was born in Avon, South Dakota in 1922, and lived in nearby Mitchell, having moved there at the age of six. |
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