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____ was born in Yorba Linda, a farming village in California, on January 9, 1913. At 17, ____ entered Whittier College, a Quaker institution where, in his first year, he was elected president of his class. ____'s ambition was to become a lawyer, but his brother's long illness had exhausted the family's savings. However, ____ earned a scholarship to Duke University where he graduated third in his class in 1937. Five months later, ____ was admitted to the California Bar and he joined the law firm of Wingert and Bewley. On June 21, 1940, two years after their first meeting, ____ and Pat Ryan were married. A few weeks after the United States entered World War II, ____ went to Washington, D.C. ____ then became the thirty-seventh president of the United States in 1969.
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