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Jimmy Carter: He was a friend of working people and family farmers and an early sponsor of legislation for clean water, Federal aid to…

On the recordJanuary 11, 1978
He was a friend of working people and family farmers and an early sponsor of legislation for clean water, Federal aid to education, and reclamation of strip-mined land.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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