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| | Former Senator Claude D. Pepper to be Honored on New Postage Stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The honorable Claude Pepper, a Democrat from Florida, served in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. |
 | | At 88, Pepper was the oldest sitting member of Congress when he died on May 30, 1989, in Washington, D.C. On May 25, 1989, five days before the Senator's death, President George J. Bush presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civil award of the U.S. Government. |
 | | Pepper was born near Dudleyville, Ala., on Sept. 8, 1900. |
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