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 | | Karl Earl Mundt (June 3, 1900 - August 16, 1974) was an American educator and a Republican member of the United States Congress, representing South Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1938 to 1948 and in the United States Senate from 1948 to 1973. |
 | | In 1948 Mundt joined with Richard Nixon to introduce a bill to require registration of Communists in the United States and to bar Communists from holding public office; a modified version of the bill was passed in 1950 as the McCarran Act. |
 | | Karl Mundt died in Washington, D.C., in 1974 and is buried in Madison, South Dakota. |
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