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Gaylord Nelson:

Gaylor Anton Nelson was born in 1916 in Clear Lake, Wisconsin. Nelson was the Democratic Senator of Wisconsin. He founded Earth Day at an environmental hearing in 1970. Nelson fought it World War II in the Battle of Okinawa. He ran for office in 1946 but was not elected and married Carrie Lee Dodson in 1947. He practiced law untill 1958 and ran for office again in 1960. Nelson narrowly beat Philip G. Kuehn for senator. Nelson was senator until he failed to be reelected in 1980. He became head of the Wilderness Society in 1981.

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