"46th Speaker of the House" Carl Albert Hand Signed 3X5 Card JG Autographs COA

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"46th Speaker of the House" Carl Albert Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Carl Bert Albert
(May 10, 1908 – February 4, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the
46th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
from 1971 to 1977 and represented
Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district
as a
Democrat
from 1947 to 1977.At 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 metres) tall, Albert was affectionately known as the "Little Giant from
Little Dixie
", and held the highest political office of any Oklahoman in American history. Albert was born in
McAlester, Oklahoma
, the son of Leona Ann (Scott) and Ernest Homer Albert, a coal miner and farmer.Shortly after his birth his family moved to
Bugtussle
, a small town just north of McAlester. He grew up in a log cabin on his father's farm. In high school he excelled in debate, was student body president, and won the national high school oratorical contest, earning a trip to Europe. During this time he was an active member of his local
Order of DeMolay
chapter; he is an inductee of the Order of DeMolay Hall of Fame. Albert later petitioned his local Masonic Lodge and became an active Freemason. He entered the
University of Oklahoma
in 1927. There, he majored in political science and won the
National Oratorical Championship
in 1928, receiving an all-expense-paid trip to Europe. He earned enough money to fund the rest of his undergraduate education through working in the college registrar's office and participating in the
Reserve Officers' Training Corps
. While at Oklahoma, he was an accomplished amateur wrestler, a member of the
Kappa Alpha Order
fraternity, and a member of the
RUF/NEKS
. He graduated
Phi Beta Kappa
in 1931, was the top male student, then studied at the
University of Oxford
on a
Rhodes Scholarship
. He received a Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence and Bachelor of Civil Laws from
St Peter's College
before returning to the United States in 1934. He opened a law practice in
Oklahoma City
in 1935. He worked for a series of oil companies in leasing work until the start of
World War II
. Albert was elected to Congress for the first time in 1946. He was a
Cold War liberal
, and supported President
Harry S Truman
's containment of
Soviet expansionism
and domestic measures like public housing, federal aid to education, and farm price supports. Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn
noticed his diligence as a legislator and began inviting him to informal meetings in the speaker's office. Rayburn also advised Albert to seek the chairmanship of the Agriculture Committee in 1949. Albert was appointed
House Majority Whip
in 1955 and elected
House Majority Leader
after Rayburn's death in 1961. Albert seemed to describe himself as a political moderate. He said, he "very much disliked doctrinaire liberals — they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy. Albert was inducted into the
Oklahoma Hall of Fame
in 1957.