Pepper, Claude

Pepper, Claude

▪ United States senator
in full  Claude Denson Pepper  
born September 8, 1900, Dudleyville, Alabama, U.S.
died May 30, 1989, Washington, D.C.

      American politician, known as a champion of the elderly, who served for more than 60 years in public office.

      After graduating from the University of Alabama (A.B., 1921) and Harvard University Law School (J.D., 1924), Pepper taught and practiced law before his election to the Florida legislature (1929), where he sponsored a bill allowing senior citizens to fish without a license. As a Democratic U.S. senator (1937–51), he endorsed the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Roosevelt, Franklin D.), rejected American isolationism in World War II, and supported legislation that created Social Security, minimum wages, and medical assistance for elderly people and handicapped children. Detractors called him “Red Pepper” not for his red hair but for his liberal views, which included economic support to the Soviet Union, an unpopular sentiment in 1951, when he lost his Senate seat.

      Pepper practiced law for a dozen years before returning to politics to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–89), where he became the chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging and of the Rules Committee. He was the principal architect of legislation, passed in 1986, that abolished mandatory retirement in the federal government, raised the retirement age from 65 to 70 in the private sector, and ensured continued health-care coverage for older workers. Pepper, who was then the oldest member of Congress, was also instrumental in the passage of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (1988). He received the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, five days before his death.

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