Mike Mansfield

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American politician and diplomat (1903-2001)

United States PoliticiansLived 1903 to 2001 · aged 98

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Photos 3

1978 painting of Mansfield

Just a few months before his death, Mansfield appears behind Howard Baker, the new U.S. Ambassador to Japan with President George W. Bush, June 26, 2001

Awards 4

1989Presidential Medal of Freedom

1977Laetare Medal

Four Freedoms Award - Freedom from Fear

Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, 1st class

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Saitō MakotoAlso won Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, 1st class

William J. BrennanAlso won Laetare Medal

J. William FulbrightAlso won Four Freedoms Award - Freedom from Fear

Helen PrejeanAlso won Laetare Medal

Hiranuma KiichirōAlso won Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, 1st class

Elliot RichardsonAlso won Four Freedoms Award - Freedom from Fear

About this person

Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977. As the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1961 to 1977, Mansfield shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate; his tenure of exactly sixteen years was the longest of any party leader in Senate history, until the record was broken by Mitch McConnell in 2023.

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