Claude Pepper
U.S. Congressperson
1900 – 1989
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Who was Claude Pepper?
Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until his death on May 30, 1989.
In 2000, the United States Postal Service issued a 33¢ Distinguished Americans series postage stamp honoring Pepper.
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