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    in the House until his death in 1970. Mendel Rivers was born in Gumville, South Carolina, to Lucius Hampton Rivers and Henrietta Marion McCay. The family...
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    USS L. Mendel Rivers (SSN-686), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine in commission from 1975 to 2001, is the only ship of the United States Navy thus far...
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  • RepRap 2.0 (Mendel), a self-replicating machine Mendel Polar Station in Antarctica L. Mendel Rivers (1905–1970), US Congressman USS L. Mendel Rivers (SSN-686)...
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  • Lucius Mendel Rivers Jr. (born October 6, 1947) is an American attorney and former politician in the state of South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina...
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    Mid-Century Modern style. It was originally the L. Mendel Rivers Federal Building, so named in 1964 for L. Mendel Rivers. It was a seven-story office building located...
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    A number of the long hull Sturgeon-class SSNs, including Parche, L. Mendel Rivers, and Richard B. Russell were involved in top-secret reconnaissance...
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  • Rivers (born 1986), American football player L. Mendel Rivers (1905–1970), American politician Larry Rivers (1923–2002), American artist Larry Rivers...
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  • later Virginia class). The last of the regular Sturgeon attack boats, L. Mendel Rivers, was decommissioned in 2001, and Parche, a highly modified Sturgeon...
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    Representative L. Mendel Rivers, Governor of South Carolina Robert Evander McNair, state Senator Rembert Dennis, and Columbia mayor Lester Bates. Rivers was especially...
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    Houston Sturgeon-class submarine: USS Silversides USS Archerfish USS L. Mendel Rivers USS Cavalla USS Tunny USS William H. Bates Benjamin Franklin-class...
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    USS Guitarro (SSN-665). The Sinking of the USS Guitarro Report to L. Mendel Rivers, chairman, Committee on Armed Services from Samuel S. Stratton, chairman...
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    work in the office of Congressman L. Mendel Rivers, his godfather and namesake. While serving as an assistant to Rivers, Davis obtained a degree in history...
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    1965, L. Mendel Rivers became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, commentator Wayne King crediting Thurmond's involvement with Rivers as giving...
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    Rayburn John William McCormack Preceded by Dewey J. Short Succeeded by L. Mendel Rivers In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953 Speaker Sam Rayburn Preceded...
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    by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee at the time, L. Mendel Rivers, who disliked that the UH-1N's Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T engines...
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    Ashmore (D) W.J. Bryan Dorn (D) John L. McMillan (D) James P. Richards (D) John J. Riley (D) L. Mendel Rivers (D) Tennessee Signatories Non-signatories...
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  • birthplace of L. Mendel Rivers, the longtime Representative of the 1st congressional district. When queried about where he was born by reporters, Rivers would...
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    caused by the death of longtime Democrat L. Mendel Rivers. Edwards narrowly lost to one of Rivers's staffers, Mendel Jackson Davis, but gained enough name...
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  • 1965, L. Mendel Rivers became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Commentator Wayne King credited Thurmond's involvement with Rivers as giving...
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  • Ford to set up a congressional hearing on UFOS, and it is opened by L. Mendel Rivers at the House Armed Services Committee. Several unexplained animal mutilations...
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    George H. Mahon; Ranking Member: Frank T. Bow) Armed Services (Chair: L. Mendel Rivers; Ranking Member: William H. Bates) Banking and Currency (Chair: Wright...
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    (1964–65), Charleston. Mid-century modern building, originally the L. Mendel Rivers Federal Building, in the Charleston Historic District. Wentworth Mansion...
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  • Powell (DD-686), a destroyer of the United States Navy (1943–1968) USS L. Mendel Rivers (SSN-686), an attack submarine of the United States Navy (1975–2001)...
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    H. Mahon; Ranking Member: Frank T. Bow) Armed Services (Chairman: L. Mendel Rivers; Ranking Member: William H. Bates) Banking and Currency (Chairman:...
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    as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. He died at home on Philcrest Farms, in Bolton...
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    Register. Navy.mil. 21 September 2001. Retrieved 19 February 2012. "USS L. Mendel Rivers (SSN 686)". Naval Vessel Register. Navy.mil. 16 February 2011. Retrieved...
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  • outspoken segregationists, including Strom Thurmond, William Colmer, and L. Mendel Rivers. By 1964, YAF was a major force in the campaign to nominate Goldwater...
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    Republican Missouri 1953–1955 Carl Vinson Democratic Georgia 1955–1965 L. Mendel Rivers Democratic South Carolina 1965–1970 Philip J. Philbin Democratic Massachusetts...
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    five Democrats and one Republican. Incumbent Democratic Congressman L. Mendel Rivers of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1941, was unopposed...
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    the House Armed Services Committee, chaired by U.S. Representative L. Mendel Rivers of South Carolina. The request for the Congressional investigation...
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