Word: celler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Emanuel Celler, 92, doughty, witty, longtime Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn who over a 25-term House career became one of Washington's most powerful urban voices; in Brooklyn. A whisky and wine merchant's son who thrived on New York City's combative clubhouse politics, Celler went to Capitol Hill in 1923, and over the next 50 years-until upset in a Democratic primary by Elizabeth Holtzman-became one of Congress's most influential big-city liberals. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for more than two decades, he was instrumental in shaping...