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Tip O'Neill
Politician
1912 – 1994
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Who was Tip O'Neill?
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. was an American politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the House of Representatives, serving for 34 years and representing two congressional districts in Massachusetts. He served as Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, making him the only Speaker to serve for five complete consecutive Congresses, and the second longest-serving Speaker in U.S. history after Sam Rayburn.
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- Born
- Dec 9, 1912
Cambridge - Also known as
- Thomas Phillip O'Neill, Jr.
- Thomas Philip O'Neill Jr.
- Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill
- Tip O'Neil
- 'Tip' O'Neill
- Speaker "Tip" O'Neill
- Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr.
- Thomas Phillip O'Neill
- TP
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mildred Anne Miller
(1941/06/17 - 1994/01/05)
- Mildred Anne Miller
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Irish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Boston College
- Lived in
- Boston
- Cambridge
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Jan 5, 1994
Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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