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Tip O'Neill

Dec 09, 1912 (112 years old) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (1912-1994) was an American Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts who served as the 47th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, the third-longest tenure in history and the longest uninterrupted tenure. He represented northern Boston in the House from 1953 to 1987.

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