Alan Bible
Alan Harvey Bible (November 20, 1909 - September 12, 1988) was a United States politician who served as a Democratic Senator from Nevada. He was born in Lovelock, Nevada, graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno, and attended law school at Georgetown University. He was admitted to the Nevada Bar in 1935; in the same year, he began serving as District Attorney for Storey County, Nevada, where he worked until 1938. In that year, he was appointed deputy Attorney General of Nevada, and served a four year term. After a spell of private practice, he was elected to the Senate in 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Patrick A. McCarran for the term ending January 3, 1957. He was reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 and served from December 2, 1954, until his resignation December 17, 1974. During his time in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Eighty-fifth through Ninetieth Congresses), the Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), and the Select Committee on Small Business (Ninety-first through Ninety-third Congresses). He is buried in Reno, Nevada.