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Pierre Pelham

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ124152771 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pierre Pelham (July 20, 1929 – December 3, 2009) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate from 1966 to 1974. He served as president pro tempore from 1970 to 1974.

Editorial summary

“Pierre Pelham” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pierre, Pelham and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2009, 1966, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-07-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pierre, Pelham and American.
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Why this record matters

“Pierre Pelham” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pierre, Pelham and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124152771. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1929, 2009, 1966 and 1974.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Pierre Pelham”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pierre Pelham primary sources, Pierre Pelham archive and Pierre research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pierre Pelham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.