John Francis Reed is an American politician, lawyer, and former Army officer serving as the senior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he was first elected to in 1996. A member of the Demo
Official portrait, 2025
Reed during the 112th Congress
Reed speaking during the third night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Reed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 22, 2023
Claiborne Pell
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Claiborne de Borda Pell was an American politician and writer who served as a U.S. senator from Rhode Island for six terms from 1961 to 1997. He was the sponsor of the 1972 bill that reformed the Basi
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…of Representatives, receiving 59% of the vote in the general election. For the next six years, he focused on education and health care. When Senator Claiborne Pell, the longest-serving senator in Rhode Island's history and the 13th longest-serving senator in US history, announced his retirement in 1996, Reed…
Claiborne Pell
Pell in the Princeton University yearbook, 1940
Pell watches as Raisa Gorbachev listens to Marilyn Quayle at a display of books and other items at the Library of Congress