Cranston, Alan

Cranston, Alan
▪ 2001

      American politician (b. June 19, 1914, Palo Alto, Calif.—d. Dec. 31, 2000, Los Altos, Calif.), served as a Democratic U.S. senator from California from 1969 until 1993, by which time his reputation had been clouded by his intervention with federal regulators on behalf of Charles Keating, president of one of the banks at the centre of the savings and loan scandal in the early 1990s. He had briefly been a presidential candidate in 1983–84, with arms control as his focus, and after leaving the Senate continued to promote that cause, becoming chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation USA think tank.

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