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Bill Nelson

United States senator
Also known as: Clarence William Nelson
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Bill Nelson (born September 29, 1942, Miami, Florida, U.S.) is an American Democratic politician who represented Florida in the U.S. Senate from 2001 to 2019. He had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–91). Nelson was the second sitting member of Congress to travel into space (1986). In 2021 he became the administrator of NASA. Nelson earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1965 and received a doctorate of law...

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