Lane kirkland biography

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    Lane Kirkland

    American politician

    Joseph Lane Kirkland (March 12, 1922 – August 14, 1999) was an American labor union leader who served as President of the AFL–CIO from 1979 to 1995.

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    • Life and career

    Kirkland was born in Camden, South Carolina, the son of Louise Beardsley (Richardson) and Randolph Withers Kirkland.[1] He rose over his career to head the 16-million-member American labor movement.[2]

    In 1941, Kirkland entered the United States Merchant Marine Academy, graduated 1942, and became a deck officer on U.S.

    merchant ships during World War II. After the war, he worked in the Research Department of the AFL. He received a B.S. degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

    Kirkland married Edith Draper Hollyday in June 1944, with whom he had five daughters.

    A year after their divorce in 1972, he married the Prague-born Irena Neumann (1925–2007).[3] An Auschwitz survivor, Neumann had previously be